In the following essay, San Juan advocates focusing on the end results of Mauberley, rather than the means used to achieve those ends.
Conceived as a poem with formal parts so unified as to subserve the whole—complete and possessing a certain magnitude—Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley reveals its virtues and powers in the style—the devices of representation—by which the poet is able to "imitate" or render in expressive form the subtle, refined workings of a unique sensibility. Our idea of the sensibility to which we attribute the nuances of attitudes and feelings, the antinomies of imaginative logic, articulated in the poem is of course an inference which depends on our grasp of the structure of the poem itself. For Pound, sensibility is a method of transfiguring personae or masks in order to actualize a.....
This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 7,143 words. This
study guide contains 22,258 words (approx. 74 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Access Pass.
