Diptych Rome-London

Ezra Pound

Diptych Rome-London

Poetry by Ezra Pound

Diptych Rome-London presents the two undisputed masterpieces of Pound’s pre-Cantos work––the long poems “Homage to Sextus Propertius” and “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.” Created in the aftermath of World War I, the poems ironically consider the place of the artist in “a botched civilization.” “Homage to Sextus Propertius” (1917) is a free translation from the Latin, an homage to the Roman poet; praising its “enormous freedom and range of tone,” Hugh Kenner remarked that “few more original poems exist in English.” “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly” (1920) is described in A. Walton Litz’s clear and helpful introduction as a “master document of literary modernism.” It was also T.S. Eliot’s favorite Pound poem: “I am quite certain of ’Mauberley,’ whatever else I am certain of… a great poem, a document of an epoch.”

Paperback(published May, 01 1994)

ISBN
9780811212687
Price US
5
Price CN
6
Page Count
64
Portrait of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

20th Century American poet