Imagism Summary

In March, 1914, a volume appeared entitled Des Imagistes. It was a collection of the work of various young poets, presented together as a school. This school has been widely discussed by those interes... Read more

Hulme has been called the first Imagist poet and the movement's theorist. The Imagists themselves were the first so to describe him. Pound started it in Ripostes and (obliquely) in Des Imagiste... Read more

Although Ezra Pound intended his term Imagisme to mean specifically "something which was the poetry of H.D.,"1 and although H.D.'s early work is frequently thought to be the quint... Read more

There is evidence that when Ezra Pound arrived in London in the fall of 1908 he was ready to inaugurate a poetic career. During the three months or so in Venice which had intervened between his discha... Read more

Sing we a song To the Blessed Gods By the dusky olives, By the green figs And the violet grapes, By the water-casks. Cry to the Gods, To the Gods that gave us Heavy harvest. Hurtful harvest, ... Read more

Lafcadio Hearn is a minor figure in American literary history, a transplanted exotic who flourished in the hot-house atmosphere of late nineteenth century aesthetic impressionism. But literary history... Read more

I It is commonplace to say that imagism played a crucial role in poetic modernism and that Ezra Pound, more than anyone else, put this poetics to practice in the 1910s. Yet imagism still remains a so... Read more

I In an essay of 1937, "D'Artagnan Twenty Years After," in which Ezra Pound reminisces of the few years when Imagism came to maturity, soon to be subsumed by Vorticism, two topic... Read more

In the August 1912 issue of The Poetry Review, F. S. Flint wrote a lengthy essay entitled "Contemporary French Poetry." The essay—monograph might be a better term for it, since it... Read more

Larkin's use of traditional poetic forms and his openly expressed contempt for Modernism have gained for him a reputation as a relatively provincial poet. Many see his admiration for such minor... Read more

"Not all objects are equal. The vice of imagism was that it did not recognize this."[1] Despite, or perhaps on account of this critique, Wallace Stevens wrote a work that rivals any for ... Read more

Imagism has been described as the grammar school of modern poetry, the instruction and drill in basic principles. The metaphor greatly exaggerates—neither Yeats nor Eliot were ever Imagists, fo... Read more

"Imagism is a faded legend," wrote J. Isaacs in 1951, "and its history has been misrepresented by interested parties."1 If Imagism was ever a faded legend, recent criticism... Read more

"Two basic literary qualities," Charles Baudelaire noted in his journals, "super-realism and irony. An individual way of seeing also a satanic things turn of mind."…... Read more