num_pages: 58
description: 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 "I am quite certain of 'Mauberley,' whatever else I am certain of... a great poem, a document of an epoch."
language: English
title: Diptych Rome-London: "Homage to Sextus Propertius," "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"
titlecomplete: Diptych Rome-London: "Homage to Sextus Propertius," "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 39
publisher: New Directions