Homage to Wilfrid Blunt (1914)

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Ezra Pound

This account by Ezra Pound of the presentation “in token of homage” to W. S. Blunt, on Sunday, 18 Jan., of “a reliquary carved in Pentelican marble by the brilliant young sculptor Gaudier Brzeska,” reprints the “verses of homage signed by the committee” and read by Pound, who also wrote them, anonymously. The poem had been printed with title “To Wilfrid Blunt” in the Times, London, for 20 Jan. 1914 (p. 5), and was included also in Richard Aldington’s account of the ceremony, “Presentation to Mr. W. S.Blunt,” in the Egoist for 2 Feb. 1914 (p. 56). It was reprinted, with suggested attribution to Pound, in Harold Monro’s Some Contemporary Poets (1920) (London, Leonard Parsons [1920]), p. 37, and appeared also in Edith Finch’s Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840-1922 (London, Jonathan Cape [1938]), p. 337.

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