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...
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In the years immediately preceding the First World War there was a group of poets in London working on principles almost diametrically opposed to those of the Georgians. The Georgians had assumed that...
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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...
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Prior to his association with the imagists, Fletcher was able to manage only derivative verse, and after 1916 his production fell off sharply for several years, but from the spring of 1913 to the fall...
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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...
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The importance of Lawrence's association with the Imagist movement—which meant for him, above all, the personality and poetic example of H.D.—tends to be under-estimated, probably...
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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...
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When subjected to scholarly scrutiny, literary revolutions usually prove less novel than they appear to be. We now know that the twentieth-century reaction against Romanticism was largely based on Rom...
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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, ...
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The influence of Walt Whitman upon the Imagist poets is a complex issue. Although several recent studies have clarified Whitman's relationship to certain Imagists like Ezra Pound, Whitman...
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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...
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In bringing the second volume of Some Imagist Poets before the public, the authors wish to express their gratitude for the interest which the 1915 volume aroused. The discussion of it was widespread, ...
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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...
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"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!"
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1842
"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."
—E.E. Cummings, 1...
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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...
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The actual landscape with its actual horns Of butcher and baker blowing, as if to hear, Hear hard, gets at an essential integrity.
—Wallace Stevens
What were the common qualities, if any,...
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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...
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In his introduction to The Spirit of Romance, Ezra Pound described the history of literary criticism as "a vain struggle to find a terminology which will define something."1 In inventing...
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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...
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Ernest Hemingway's appreciation for Ezra Pound is widely known—his constant praise for Pound during a life marred by broken friendships and bitter words; his 1956 check for $1000, sent t...
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"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 ...
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Only from about the year 1926 did the features of the post-war world begin clearly to emerge—and not only in the sphere of politics. From about that date one began slowly to realize that the in...
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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...
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An article on Imagism can claim to be doubly justified in any symposium on modern American poetry. The movement assembled, particularly in its criticism, many of the tendencies which went to make up t...
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"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...
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At the conclusion of his book, Noel Stock, the biographer of Ezra Pound, summarized: "With Yeats, Joyce, Lewis and Eliot dead he was the last survivor among the leading men of the formative yea...
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"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."…...
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From its inception the Imagist movement was associated with the ideal of concision. The second of the three precepts announced in F. S. Flint's note "Imagisme" was "To use ...
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Nearly every digital camera on the market comes with some basic image editing software enabling you to perform actions such as color and brightness correction, resizing, sharpening, red-eye remova...
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This month I want to talk about the "business" part of the motorcycle business. Even though most of us are having a great time in this industry, there are always things we need to be aware of as bu...
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His aides have worked long and hard to soften the image of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and cast him as a moderate. But the burly 57-year-old former electrician and metal worker keeps straying ...
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"Fuerzabruta" means "brute force" in Spanish and there certainly is enough crashing through walls — among other powerful impacts — in the 60 minutes of arty entertainment on view at off...
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A common spamming technique of sending unwanted e-mail pitches as image attachments rather than text is on the decline, as spammers continue adapting their methods for sneaking past e-mail filters....
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected a proposed settlement that would have required troubled Sharper Image Corp. to distribute $19 coupons to millions of consumers who bought air purifiers alleged ...
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Sharper Image Corp. has agreed to discount its high-tech gadgets by more than $60 million and make several other concessions to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the specialty retailer misled ...
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