Diptych Rome-London (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811212687)

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."

Author: Ezra Pound
ISBN-10: 0811212688
ISBN-13: 9780811212687
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/17/1994
Pages: 58
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.07lbs
Size: 6.98h x 4.77w x 0.21d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/1994 pg. 172
Publishers Weekly 04/25/1994 pg. 62