Imagist poetry is in many ways the essence of what poetry strives to be -- it is concise, concrete, and creates a visual image through carefully selected language. As a poetic movement, Imagism began around 1912 with poetry by Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, and Hilda Doolittle (usually written H.D.), among others, and the movement carried on into the twentieth century to produce some very popular and highly expressive works. The Imagists produced four anthologies of their work -- Des Imagistes, 1914; Some Imagists, 1915, 1916, 1917; and the magazines Poetry (from 1912) and The Egoist (from 1914); and these included the work of a dozen or more Imagist poets. It has been some time since a strong collection of Imagist poetry has been made, and this anthology is intended to present some of the works that help define this poetic movement. The approach is largely chronological, carrying the reader from early poems by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell through later developments in the poetry of Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, DH Lawrence, F.S. Flint, William Carlos Williams, and e.e. cummings. Like the spread of Imagism itself, the anthology also carries the reader from its European origins to the American poets who shaped it and made it their own. Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle were two of the American poets who were in Europe and who joined with other poets like the British...
This group was intent on starting something new. They liked reading Greek poetry together and also had a knowledge of many other poetic traditions.
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T.S. Eliot and Amy Lowell The poetic styles of T.S. Eliot and Amy Lowell are so dissimilar, that it comes as something of a shock to realize how much the two poets had in common. Each came from a prominent Boston family, and was related to a President of Harvard University -- Eliot was a distant relation to Harvard's President Eliot, and attended Harvard as an undergraduate: Amy Lowell's brother would
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