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For a poem that similarly uses a fictional character to express the author’s disillusionment with the modern world, see T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
For another seminal work of modernist literature, see James Joyce’s Ulysses or Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
For context to many of the allusions, see Homer’s The Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are among the oldest known works of Western literature.
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The Question and Answer section for Ezra Pound: Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In Section One, Pound criticizes both artists and publishers for caring only about sales instead of the craft.
In the poem, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Pound describes America as a "half-savage land" where his art could not flourish. However, when he first arrived in London, he found that Britain was absorbed in commodities.
ound was not the creator of this poem; he translated it from the original Chinese version by Li Po. The Chinese original likely had a specific form and identifiable meter, but Pound did not know enough about Chinese poetry to preserve it in his...
