The narrator's encounters with the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed in the section "Yeux Glaques," while it comments on Ernest Dowson's drinking in a section named "Siena made me, Maremma unmade me."
The narrator's encounters with the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed in the section "Yeux Glaques," while it comments on Ernest Dowson's drinking in a section named "Siena made me, Maremma unmade me." It opens with a quote from Nemesianus, "the heat calls us into the shade," and it mixes caricatures of Arnold Bennet [*] and Ford Madox Ford, as Mr. Nixon and "The Stylist"respectively, into its critique of the state of literature. This poem, subtitled "Life and Contacts," was appended to editions of Personae where it appeared with a note indicating since it was so clearly a "goodbye to London" many should simply skip it. FTP identify this 1920 work named for a fictitious poet, a work by Ezra Pound.
The narrator's encounters with the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed in the section "Yeux Glaques," while it comments on Ernest Dowson's drinking in a section named "Siena made me, Maremma unmade me."
{Hugh Selwyn Mauberley}