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Imagism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chicago Imagists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chicago Imagists is the name of a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their ...
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IMAGIST, A group of American and English poets whose poetic program was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound--in conjunction with fellow poets Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Richard Aldington, and F.S. Flint--and was inspired by the critical views of T.E. Hulme, in revolt against the careless thinking and Romantic optimism he...
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Finally, imagist poems were influenced by Japanese haiku, poems of 17 syllables which usually present only two juxtaposed images. This poetry strives to suggests more than its literal meaning, yet avoids overt figurative devices like allegory and even metaphor.
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The "Chicago School" or Imagist Poets ... They called their poetry imagist poetry. ... The perfect example of an Imagist poem was written by Ezra Pound, entitled "In a Station at the Metro."
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Below are a number of links to web pages dealing with Imagist Poetry. There are many on Ezra Pound, but fewer on Amy Lowell and H.D (Hilda Doolittle). After you have visited each site, be prepared to discuss the following:
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The Imagist Movement in Early Twentieth-Century Poetry ... The Imagists were English and American poets who were active between 1909 and 1918. Ezra Pound, perhaps the most prominent of these poets, described an image as "an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time" and believed that visual images...
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