"The activity of wringing lilies from the acorn that Pound attributes to his 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' characterizes above all the cluster of theory and practice associated with the 'movement' of Pre-Raphaelitism. As is usual with artistic movements, the practice goes directly contrary to the theory. A theoretical aim of exact representation of the object with all its detailed simplicity of outline...becomes problematic straightaway when the objects are ideas and emotions."