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There are 28 critical essays on Imagism.
Critical Essays on Imagism
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 Edmund S. de Chasca
12,503 words, approx. 42 pages
 In the following essay, de Chasca examines Fletcher's works of the mid-1910s, noting his philosophical alignment with Imagism but citing technical departures from Imagist precepts.
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William Skaff
11,630 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Skaff focuses on the importance of metaphor and the unconscious in the poetic theories advanced by Ezra Pound and the Surrealists.
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Cyrena N. Pondrom
10,338 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Pondrom discusses the contributions of H.D. to the theory and practice of Imagism.
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Yoshinobu Hakutani
10,294 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Hakutani focuses on the poetry, essays, and correspondence of Yone . Noguchi as sources of Japanese poetics in the Imagist techniques of Ezra Pound.
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A. R. Jones
8,782 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Jones examines sources for establishing a factual history of Imagism.
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Milton A. Cohen
8,469 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Cohen draws parallels between Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" (1913) and the principles outlined by the Austrian-born American composer Arnold Schoenberg in Theory of Harmony (1911), placing both in the destructive phase of the development of new art forms.
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Terry Whalen
8,185 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Whalen identifies Imagist qualities in the poetry of Philip Larkin.
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James Naremore
7,656 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Naremore discusses the influence of contemporary French poetry on the poetics of Imagism, emphasizing particularly the role of the English critic F. S. Flint in informing English writers of recent developments in French literature.
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Wallace Martin
7,422 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Martin locates sources of lmagist aesthetics in theories of philosophy and psychology that were current in the early twentieth century.
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William Pratt
7,304 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Pratt focuses on the Imagist and ironic qualities of Ezra Pound's works as seminal to defining the Modern Age in English poetry.
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Ethan Lewis
7,125 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Lewis interprets Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" utilizing Imagist poetic theory.
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Stanley K. Coffman, Jr.
7,028 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Coffman examines aesthetic theories developed by T. E. Hulme.
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Bernard Duffey
6,656 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Duffey traces the development of Pound's Imagist aesthetics through an examination of his early critical writings.
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Warren Ramsey
6,626 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Ramsey discusses such qualities as immediacy and precise imagery in an examination of common traits shared by Imagist poetry and the works of nineteenth-century literary Symbolists.
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Lorelei Cederstrom
6,340 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Cederstrom identifies Whitman as "a powerful and pervasive force " on Imagist theory and practice.
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David Perkins
6,255 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Perkins discusses the development of the Imagist movement, offers examples of poetry embodying Imagist principles, and discusses the works of Richard Aldington, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, and Herbert Read in relation to Imagism.
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Linda W. Wagner
5,141 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Wagner discusses the influence of Ezra Pound's Imagist aesthetics on the early works of Ernest Hemingway, in particular his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926).
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Brendan Jackson
5,136 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Jackson focuses on "Hermes of the Ways" in an examination of the extent to which H.D.'s poetry adheres to the principles of Imagism.
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Ian Fletcher
5,125 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Fletcher discusses sources of Imagism within the English literary tradition.
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B. Rajan
5,124 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Rajan presents a negative assessment of Imagist aims, techniques, and achievement.
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Neil Roberts
4,939 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Roberts focuses on D. H. Lawrence's long poem sequences in a discussion of his poetry in relation to Imagism and the development of modern English poetry.
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Elaine Rusinko
4,422 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, which was based on a paper presented at the National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Rusinko identifies similarities between Imagism and Russian Acmeism.
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Daniel Stempel
3,154 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Stempel asserts that translations by Lafcadio Hearn served as an important source of Japanese style and technique for writers of the Imagist movement.
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P. E. Firchow
3,039 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Firchow locates the poetics of Imagism as advanced by Ezra Pound within the classical tradition in poetry.
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Vivian de Sola Pinto
2,402 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, de Sola Pinto summarizes the contributions of T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, and D. H. Lawrence to the development of modern English poetry.
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A. R. C. Finch
2,249 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, Finch theorizes that H.D. 's poetic style antedates and extends beyond the formulation of the Imagist principles most closely associated with her works.
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Amy Lowell
1,896 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following essay, Lowell identifies Imagism as a descendant of French Symbolism and clarifies the aims of Imagist poetry.
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