Week 13: Pound, 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberly'
Considered in terms of the "tragic poets" of the 1890s and the impact of WWI. Essential reading: annotated edition of the poem, follow up some of the more important allusions.
Responses:
cf Ulysses -> SD and LB -> 2 sides of Joyce (also Under the Volcano)
2 halves: EP - The poet he wouuld like to be, HSM: the poet he despises (but secretly associates with himself)
evokes Yeats' "tragic generation" / "twilight generation"
Mauberley - dwindles away - the weakness of the '90s poets (aesthetic impulses destined to be aborted)
Pound and Eliot -> "destroyed" the Georgians - accentuation of irony, removing the dead weight, a revelation in English poetry.
WW! -> ruination of culture / civilisation [b/g of modernism = carnage of WW1]
- return home - not a place for heroes...
I: Pound doing the imposssible (or trying)
Odyssey as myth and structure
"elegance of Circe's hair" - trying not to be pulled in
Responses:
cf Ulysses -> SD and LB -> 2 sides of Joyce (also Under the Volcano)
2 halves: EP - The poet he wouuld like to be, HSM: the poet he despises (but secretly associates with himself)
evokes Yeats' "tragic generation" / "twilight generation"
Mauberley - dwindles away - the weakness of the '90s poets (aesthetic impulses destined to be aborted)
Pound and Eliot -> "destroyed" the Georgians - accentuation of irony, removing the dead weight, a revelation in English poetry.
WW! -> ruination of culture / civilisation [b/g of modernism = carnage of WW1]
- return home - not a place for heroes...
I: Pound doing the imposssible (or trying)
Odyssey as myth and structure
"elegance of Circe's hair" - trying not to be pulled in
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