...rehearses his position in the poems of this last book borders on a designed but gracious acceptance: He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to...— No, hardly — but, seeing he had been born In a half-savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus; trout...

...once to page 205. "VOCAT JESTUS IN UMBRAM" Nemesianus, EC. IF. EP ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE FOR three years, out of key with his time, He strove...had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus ; trout for factitious bait ; TOI irdvO',...

...and contacts) 'vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus EC. IV. P. ODE POUR L' ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE For three years, out of key with his time, He strove...had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus; trout for factitious bait j / //)>«»tt...

...to page 205. "VOCAT .S:STUS IN UMBRAM" Nemesianus, Ec. IV. EP ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE FOR three years, out of key with his time, He strove...had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn ; Capaneus ; trout for factitious bait ; yap TOI...

...once to page 205. "VOCAT ^ESTUS IN UMBRAM" Nemesianus, EC. IV. EP ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE FOR three years, out of key with his time, He strove...art Of poetry^ to maintain "the sublime" In the old sense,_. Wrong from the start — No, hardly, but seeing he hadLbecnborn In a half savage country,...

...moustaches. (Anonymous; Fenollosa Mss., very early; Mori's gloze.) EP ODE POUR SELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE For three years, out of key with his time, He strove...had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus; trout for factitious bait; yap rot Trdv6\...

...iambic, thus moving toward free verse while, as I hear it, trying to maintain Gautier's tetrameters: For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; The need to forego, in order to maintain the tetrameter, the expected accent on "dead" creates an exciting...

...trapped by his age, his companions killed for a "botched civilization," his efforts a "tragic" failure: For three years, out of key with his time, He strove..."the sublime" In the old sense. Wrong from the start . . . Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is steeped in Yeats's memories of his youth, and it reiterates a genealogy...

...Pound's 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1921) sometimes plays deliberately with prose, as in its famous opening: 'For three years, out of key with his time, / He strove...sublime' / In the old sense. Wrong from the start -' (p. 187). Pound both mocks and shares in the search for a better poetics. Presiding over the end...

...Mauberley who were also all poets 'out of key with [their] time': For three yean, out of key with hie time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry;...been born In a half -savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; ... His true Penelope was Flaubert ... Thus Pound...