Imagist Poetry

Imagist Poetry PDF Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141913142
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
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 PDF Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486153800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
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.

Explaining Imagism

Explaining Imagism PDF Author: Sławomir Wącior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
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).

Des Imagistes

Des Imagistes PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imagist poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description

Imagism & the Imagists

Imagism & the Imagists PDF Author: Glenn Hughes
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description

Some Imagist Poets

Some Imagist Poets PDF Author: Amy Lowell
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512019384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
"Some Imagist Poets" from Amy Lowell. American poet of the imagist school (1874-1925).

The Fourth Imagist

The Fourth Imagist PDF Author: Frank Stuart Flint
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838641583
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
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.

HERmione

HERmione PDF Author: Hilda Doolittle
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
“H. D's wit, sense of rhythm, and control of language prove the inadequacy of the imagist label that is so often applied to this writer.” —Library Journal This autobiographical novel, an interior self-portrait of the poet H. D. (1886-1961) is what can best be described as a "find,' a posthumous treasure. In writing HERmione, H.D. returned to a year in her life that was "peculiarly blighted." She was in her early twenties––"a disappointment to her father, an odd duckling to her mother, an importunate, overgrown, unincarnated entity that had no place… Waves to fight against, to fight against alone…'I am Hermione Gart, a failure’––she cried in her dementia, 'l am Her, Her, Her."' She had failed at Bryn Mawr, she felt hemmed in by her family, she did not yet know what she was going to do with her life. The return from Europe of the wild-haired George Lowndes (Ezra Pound) expanded her horizons but threatened her sense of self. An intense new friendship with Fayne Rabb (Frances Josepha Gregg), an odd girl who was, if not lesbian, then certainly of bisexual bent, brought an atmosphere that made her hold on everyday reality more tenuous. This stormy course led to mental breakdown, then to a turning point and a new beginning as her own true self, as "Her”––the poet H.D. Perdita Schaffner, H.D.'s daughter, who can remember back to the time in 1927 when her mother was barricaded with her typewriter behind a locked door, working on this very novel, has provided a charming and telling introduction.
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