A study of Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

This paper attempts to examine Mauberley, as it forms an important document of transatlantic modernist poetry and is a scathing satire on the prevalent literary scene in England. We seem to revel in announcing periodically the death of something/someone or the other. Many years ago Barthes declared that the author was dead although writers continued to collect their royalties duly. And now we are speaking of the Death of the Theory itself. In brief, this article attempts to analyze the death of art in Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.