Imagism | Suggested Reading

Imagism What Do I Read Next?

Imagist Poem, edited by William Pratt and revised in 2001, is an expanded anthology of imagist poetry first published in the 1960s. This collection is a good place to start for getting to know and understand imagist poetry.

A comprehensive collection of Japanese haiku from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century can be found in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1995), edited by Robert Hass. Basho, Buson, and Issa are the most proficient poets of haiku. This anthology contains three hundred of their poems.

The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s (1993), by Christine Bolt, offers an extensive historical perspective of the women's rights movement seen through the more modern vision of feminism. This book offers a good understanding of the environment in which the men and women of Imagism were writing.

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