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

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’.


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.


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).


The Fourth Imagist

The Fourth Imagist

Author: Frank Stuart Flint

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780838641583

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This is the first time that a substantial and representative selection of Flint's poetry has been collected. The Introduction supplies important biographical information, and traces how Flint became involved, along with Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, and H.D., in the Imagist project. There are sixty-three poems drawn from Flint's three published collections of poetry--In the Net of the Stars (1909), Cadences (1915), and Otherworld (1920), and a further twenty-two uncollected or previously unpublished poems, making eighty-five poems in all. The Introduction also offers a sustained and illuminating discussion of the evolution of Flint's art through three volumes. In addition, there are five appendices, among them Flint's important essays, "Imagisme" and "The History of Imagism." The book seeks to establish Flint as a significant contributor to early Modernist poetry, i.e., Imagism, and to reassess the qualities and achievement of an undeservedly overlooked poet.