The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries Of the inward gaze ; Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase I The "age demanded"... The Double Dealer - Page 2691966Full view - About this book
| Ezra Pound - 1926 - 264 pages
...from men's memory in I' an trentiesme De son eage; the case presents No adjunct to the Muses' diadem. THE age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Notf, at any ra^e, an Attic grace ; Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries Of the inward gaze ; ^... | |
| John Jenkins Espey - 1926 - 150 pages
...but it is never a fixed thing, for it builds up in the second poem to the insistent repetitions of "Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; / Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries," and the later echo of "not, not assuredly, alabaster." The stricter form dominates in the third poem,... | |
| Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming - Drama - 1990 - 118 pages
...Pronunciation of Selected Greek Consonants 75 Appendix B: Literal Translations of Greek Phrases 77 Introduction The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace,...Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Ezra Pound, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" In the summer of 1986, 1 was sitting in James Laughlin's extraordinary... | |
| Ernest Hemingway - Poetry - 1992 - 204 pages
...The title and the rhythm are borrowed from the second part of Ezra Pound's "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly": The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace,...the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; 139 Yet I don't think the age demanded One half the stuff that it was handed. 44. Kipling Although... | |
| Veronica Makowsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 180 pages
...troubled by what "the age demanded" of the artist. Mauberley, an aesthete, indicts the modern era: The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace,...obscure reveries Of the inward gaze; Better mendacities Although Pound sympathizes with Mauberley's mysticism and Hellenism, he and his fellow international... | |
| Ezra Pound - Fiction - 1994 - 70 pages
...from men's memory in Van trentuniesme De son cage; the case presents No adjunct to the Muses' diadem. The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace,...inward gaze; Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrasel The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster, Made with no loss of time, A prose kinema,... | |
| Sandra Kumamoto Stanley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 220 pages
...the speaker of Pound's Mauberley states "the age demanded," he first renders a judgment on the age: The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace,...the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster, Made with no loss of time, A prose kinema, not, not... | |
| Daniel Albright - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a disabled poet enamored of classical antiquity, disdainful of the modern age: The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace,...the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. (Pcrsonae, p. 188) Mauberley is clearly an ironist, undercutting the pretensions of a loud and aggressive,... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...poetry; to maintain 'the sublime' In the old sense. Wrong from the start 8971 8992 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 8 modem stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries Of the inward... | |
| Leon Surette - Antisemitism - 1999 - 336 pages
...Seluyn Mauberley contains perhaps his most eloquent, but by no means his first, expression of this view: The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace...Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Auic grace: Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries Of the inward gaze; Beuer mendacities Than the... | |
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