Exultations

Exultations was published just sixth months after Personae, on 25 October 1909. Largely comprised of poems reprinted from literary journals, Exultations exhibited a "slipping into an 1890s langour" which Eliot would call "rather fancy old-fashioned romantic stuff". Reviews were cautious, but criticism of his continual tendency towards literary allusion in some way affected and molded Pound's later approach. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Epigraph 5 Dedication 6 Acknowledgments 7 CONTENTS 8 Guido invites you thus 10 Night Litany 11 Sandalphon 13 Sestina: Altaforte 15 Piere Vidal Old 17 Ballad of the Goodly Fere 20 Hymn III 23 Sestina for Ysolt 24 Portrait 26 "Fair Helena" by Rackham 27 Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi 28 Aux Belles de Londres 33 Francesca 34 Greek Epigram 35 Christophori Columbi Tumulus 36 Plotinus 37 On His Own Face in a Glass 38 Histrion 39 The Eyes 40 Defiance 41 Song 42 Nel Biancheggiar 43 Nils Lykke 44 A Song of the Virgin Mother 45 Planh for the Young English King 47 Alba lnnominata 49 Planh 51