This page intentionally left blank
APPENDIX: THE FOUR LUSTRAS 1916-1917, AND LUSTRA IN PERSONAE (1990)
This page intentionally left blank
73
1. Lustra of Ezra Pound, 1st edition, 1st impr. London: Elkin Mathews, Sept 1916 (UNABRIDGED).
Dance Figure, for the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Ladies (“Agathas”, “Young Lady”, “Lesbia illa”, “Passing”)
A Translation from the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born: “Dompna pois de me no’us cal”
The Coming of War: Actaeon After Ch’u Yuan
Liu Ch’e
Fan-piece, for Her Imperial Lord Ts’ai Chih
In a Station of the Metro Alba
“Ione, Dead the Long Year”
’Ιµέρρω Shop Girl
To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend, after Valerius Catullus
The Game of Chess. Dogmatic Statement concerning the Game of Chess Provincia deserta
Song of the Bowmen of Shu The Beautiful Toilet The River Song
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin Lament of the Frontier Guard Exile’s Letter
From Rihaku: Four Poems of Departure (“Separation on the River Kiang”, “Taking Leave of a Friend”, “Leave-Taking near Shoku”, “The City of Choan”) South Folk in Cold Country Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku A Ballad of the Mulberry Road Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
Near Perigord
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour Dans un Omnibus de Londres To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers Homage to Quintus Septimus Florentis
Christianus Fish and the Shadow
74
2. Lustra of Ezra Pound, 1st edition, 2nd impr. London: Elkin Mathews, Oct 1916 (ABRIDGED).
Dance Figure, for the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Ladies (“Agathas”, “Young Lady”, “Lesbia illa”, “Passing”)
Coda Ancora
A Translation from the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born: “Dompna pois de me no’us cal”
The Coming of War: Actaeon After Ch’u Yuan
Liu Ch’e
Fan-piece, for Her Imperial Lord Ts’ai Chih
In a Station of the Metro Alba
“Ione, Dead the Long Year”
Shop Girl
To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend, after Valerius Catullus
The Game of Chess. Dogmatic Statement concerning the Game of Chess Provincia deserta
Song of the Bowmen of Shu The Beautiful Toilet The River Song
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin Lament of the Frontier Guard Exile’s Letter
From Rihaku: Four Poems of Departure (“Separation on the River Kiang”, “Taking Leave of a Friend”, “Leave-Taking near Shoku”, “The City of Choan”) South Folk in Cold Country Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku A Ballad of the Mulberry Road Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
Near Perigord
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour Dans un Omnibus de Londres To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers Homage to Quintus Septimus Florentis
Christianus Fish and the Shadow.
75
3.Lustra of Ezra Pound With Earlier Poems, printed for private circulation, New York, Oct. 1917
Dance Figure, for the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Ladies (“Agathas”, “Young Lady”, “Lesbia illa”, “Passing”)
A Translation from the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born: “Dompna pois de me no’us cal”
The Coming of War: Actaeon After Ch’u Yuan
Liu Ch’e
Fan-piece, for Her Imperial Lord Ts’ai Chih
In a Station of the Metro Alba
“Ione, Dead the Long Year”
’Ιµέρρω Shop Girl
To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend, after Valerius Catullus
The Game of Chess. Dogmatic Statement concerning the Game of Chess Provincia deserta
Song of the Bowmen of Shu The Beautiful Toilet The River Song
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin Lament of the Frontier Guard Exile’s Letter
From Rihaku: Four Poems of Departure:
(“Separation on the River Kiang”, “Taking Leave of a Friend”, “Leave-Taking near Shoku”, “The City of Choan”) South Folk in Cold Country Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku A Ballad of the Mulberry Road Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
Near Perigord
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour Dans un Omnibus de Londres Pagani’s, November 8
To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers Homage to Quintus Septimus Florentis
Christianus Fish and the Shadow.
Impressions of François-Marie Arouet (de Voltaire)
The Temperaments
POEMS PUBLISHED BEFORE 1911:
In Durance
76
Pierre Vidal Old
CANZONI, FIRST PUBLISHED 1911:
Prayer for his Lady’s Life
“Blandula, tenulla, vagula”
Erat hora The Sea of Glass Rome
Her Monument, the Image Cut Thereon Housman’s Message to Mankind
Translations from Heine [I-VIII] – Und Drang [I-XII]
RIPOSTES, FIRST PUBLISHED 1912:
Silet
In exitum cuiusdam Apparuit
The Tomb at Akr Çaar Portrait d’une femme New York A Girl
“Phassellus ille”
An Object Quies The Seafarer The Cloak An Immorality
“Dieu! Qu’il la fait”
salve Pontifex (A. C. S.)
∆ώρια The Needle Sub mare Plunge A Virginal Pan is Dead The Picture Of Jacopo del Sellaio The Return
THREE CANTOS OF A POEM OF SOME LENGTH [revised versions of the Three Cantos first published in Poetry June-August 1917].
77
4.Lustra of Ezra Pound with Earlier Poems, 2nd edition, 2nd impr. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, Oct 1917.
Dance Figure, for the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Ladies (“Agathas”, “Young Lady”, “Lesbia illa”, “Passing”)
A Translation from the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born: “Dompna pois de me no’us cal”
The Coming of War: Actaeon After Ch’u Yuan
Liu Ch’e
Fan-piece, for Her Imperial Lord Ts’ai Chih
In a Station of the Metro Alba
“Ione, Dead the Long Year”
’Ιµέρρω Shop Girl
To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend, after Valerius Catullus
The Game of Chess. Dogmatic Statement concerning the Game of Chess Provincia deserta
Song of the Bowmen of Shu The Beautiful Toilet The River Song
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin Lament of the Frontier Guard Exile’s Letter
From Rihaku: Four Poems of Departure (“Separation on the River Kiang”, “Taking Leave of a Friend”, “Leave-Taking near Shoku”, “The City of Choan”) South Folk in Cold Country Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku A Ballad of the Mulberry Road Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
Near Perigord
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour Dans un Omnibus de Londres Pagani’s, November 8
To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers Homage to Quintus Septimus Florentis
Christianus Fish and the Shadow.
Impressions of François-Marie Arouet (de Voltaire)
POEMS PUBLISHED BEFORE 1911:
In Durance Pierre Vidal Old
78
CANZONI, FIRST PUBLISHED 1911:
Prayer for his Lady’s Life
“Blandula, tenulla, vagula”
Erat hora The Sea of Glass Rome
Her Monument, the Image Cut Thereon Housman’s Message to Mankind
Translations from Heine [I-VIII] – Und Drang [I-XII]
RIPOSTES, FIRST PUBLISHED 1912:
Silet
In exitum cuiusdam Apparuit
The Tomb at Akr Çaar Portrait d’une femme New York A Girl
“Phassellus ille”
An Object Quies The Seafarer The Cloak An Immorality
“Dieu! Qu’il la fait”
salve Pontifex (A. C. S.)
∆ώρια The Needle Sub mare Plunge A Virginal Pan is Dead The Picture Of Jacopo del Sellaio The Return
THREE CANTOS OF A POEM OF SOME LENGTH [revised versions of the Three Cantos first published in Poetry June-August 1917].
(Source: Donald Gallup, Ezra Pound: A Bibliography)
79
5. Lustra in Personae (revised edition prepared by Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz, New York, 1990).
“Dompna pois de me no’us cal”
The Coming of War: Actaeon After Ch’u Yuan
Liu Ch’e
Fan-piece, for Her Imperial Lord Ts’ai Chih
In a Station of the Metro Alba
To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend Tame Cat
The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Lament of the Frontier Guard Exile’s Letter
Four Poems of Departure
Separation on the River Kiang Taking Leave of a Friend Leave-Taking near Shoku The City of Choan South Folk in Cold Country Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku A Ballad of the Mulberry Road Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu To-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”
To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers Homage to Quintus Septimus Florentis
Christianus Fish and the Shadow
Impressions of François-Marie Arouet (de Voltaire)