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Imagism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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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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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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Imagism was a poetic movement which flourished in London between 1910 and 1917 and had an enduring and pervasive influence on English-language poetry in the twentieth century.
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Imagism summary and study guide with notes, essays, quotes, analysis and pictures ... Imagism flourished in Britain and in the United States for a brief period that is generally considered to be somewhere between 1909 and 1917. As part of the modernist movement, away from the sentimentality and moralizing tone of...
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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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