Imagist Poetry

Imagist Poetry

Author: Peter Jones

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 192

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’.


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).


Imagist Poetry: An Anthology

Imagist Poetry: An Anthology

Author: Bob Blaisdell

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0486153800

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Over 180 well-chosen Imagist gems appear in this tribute to an important and influential poetic movement of the 20th century. Includes short verse by Pound, Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle, Joyce, Stevens, others.


A Study Guide for "Imagism"

A Study Guide for

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1410349292

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A Study Guide for "Imagism," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.


Radio Corpse

Radio Corpse

Author: Daniel Tiffany

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780674746626

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Focusing on the necrophilic dimension of Pound's poetry and the inflections of materiality enabled by the modernist image, Tiffany finds a continuum between Decadent practice and the avant-garde, between the image's prehistory and its political afterlife, between the "corpse language" of Victorian poetry and a conception of the "radioactive" image


The Imagist Poets

The Imagist Poets

Author: Andrew Thacker

Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0746310021

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A clear and incisive account of the Imagists, the first significant group of modernist poets writing in English.