Explaining Imagism

Explaining Imagism

Author: Sławomir Wącior

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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In the present study, the innovative and cerebral poetry of the Imagist movement, which revolutionized modern English and American poetry, has been analyzed in its contextual and inter-textual relationships with other arts. Consequently, the book is like the texts it attempts to investigate, a peculiar hybrid, a collage of three basic materials or analytical perspectives: an excerpt from an Imagist manifesto sketched out in handwriting (context), a torn out printed page from a first edition of Des Imagistes (text), and a photograph of a museum installation of a room devoted to Modernist art (intertext).


Some Imagist Poets

Some Imagist Poets

Author: Amy Lowell

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-05-03

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781512019384

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"Some Imagist Poets" from Amy Lowell. American poet of the imagist school (1874-1925).


Imagist Poetry

Imagist Poetry

Author: Peter Jones

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0141913142

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Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as ‘a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ... half-melted, lumpy’. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should ‘use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something ... it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech’. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, ‘imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice’.


Pound/Williams

Pound/Williams

Author: Ezra Pound

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780811213011

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Contains 170 letters selected from the surviving correspondence of two of Modernism's legendary poets. Dating from 1907 until Williams' death in 1963, each letter is reproduced in full and accompanied by explanatory notes. Includes a historical introduction setting the letters in context. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Poetry of Du Fu

The Poetry of Du Fu

Author: Stephen Owen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-11-13

Total Pages: 2741

ISBN-13: 150150195X

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The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to address problems that even the best traditional commentaries overlook. The main body of the text is a facing page translation and critical edition of the earliest Song editions and other sources. For convenience the translations are arranged following the sequence in Qiu Zhao’an’s Du shi xiangzhu (although Qiu’s text is not followed). Basic footnotes are included when the translation needs clarification or supplement. Endnotes provide sources, textual notes, and a limited discussion of problem passages. A supplement references commonly used allusions, their sources, and where they can be found in the translation. Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. The scholar may use this as a baseline to agree or disagree. Other readers can feel confident that this is a credible reading of the text within the tradition. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu, which can present problems for even the most learned reader.


Distance

Distance

Author: Jeffrey Peter Kelley

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1468544306

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Distance Yearning refl ections Contemplated on extraordinary horizons Where the sun slowly sets And the stars meet the sea with twinkling realizations of Distance Goodbye remembered heavens Breathes one last warrior soul Dreaming of an era gone by One of chosen travels and mighty deeds Taking delight in whispering desires of Distance