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Imagism Name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 and represented by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others, aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. In the early period often written in the French form Imagisme.
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www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/imagism-def.html
www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/imagism-def.html
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The Imagist movement included English and American poets in the early twentieth century who wrote free verse and were devoted to "clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images." A strand of modernism, Imagism was officially launched in 1912 when Ezra Pound read and marked up a poem by Hilda Doolittle,
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Before Imagism: "Genteel" Poetry ... Around 1912 in London, some British and American poets led by Ezra Pound started a poetic movement called imagism. These poets reacted against genteel poetry, which they saw as sentimental, soft-edged, and emotionally dishonest.
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faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/imagism.htm
faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/imagism.htm
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Imagism was a poetic movement started around 1910 in London by Ezra Pound and some British poets. These poets disliked the "genteel" poets and thought the Georgians too timid. They advised, "1. Direct treatment of the ‘thing,’ whether subjective or objective.
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On Imagism from Amy Lowell, Tendencies in Modern American Poetry; (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917). ... I suppose few literary movements have been so little understood as Imagism. Only a short time ago, in the "Yale Review," Professor John Erskine confessed that he had no clear idea of what was Imagist verse and what...
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www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/amylowell/imagism.htm
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Richard Aldington and H.D. ... Richard Aldington is probably best known for being one of the first three Imagist poets, along with Ezra Pound and H.D. Around the Fall of 1912 in London, Pound proclaimed himself and his two good friends to be the three original Imagists, and was instrumental in ... H.D., or Hilda Doolittle,
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www.imagists.org/
www.imagists.org/
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; Ezra Pound ; Charles Reznikoff ; Hilda Doolittle ; Carl Sandburg ; ... What is imagism? ... 1. The defenition of imagism...
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www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/us_poetry/imagism...
www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/us_poetry/imagism/
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Imagery is a literary device that helps establish setting. Writers want their readers to visualize, hear, and absorb the ambience of the place where the action of their poem or story takes place (Soles). ... Some principles of Imagism were as follows:
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ftp.ccccd.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesimagism.htm
ftp.ccccd.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesimagism.htm
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Imagism was a successor to the French Symbolist movement, but, whereas Symbolism had an affinity with music, Imagism sought analogy with sculpture. In 1914 Pound turned to Vorticism, and Amy Lowell largely took over leadership of the group.
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www.usm.maine.edu/~jkuenz/391/391/Imagism.htm
www.usm.maine.edu/~jkuenz/391/391/Imagism.htm
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