Imagist Poetry
Imagist Poetry, edited by Peter Jones, is a comprehensive exploration of a significant poetic movement from the early 20th century. Published by Penguin Books in 1981, this edition spans 188 pages and is presented in English. The book delves into the imagist movement, which emerged as a reaction against the complexities of late 19th-century poetry, emphasizing clarity, brevity, and precision in expression.
Readers will find a detailed examination of the principles that define imagist poetry, including its focus on purity of texture and concentrated meaning. The text highlights the movement’s influential figures, such as Ezra Pound, and discusses how imagist ideas continue to resonate in contemporary poetic practices. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in American and English poetry of the 20th century, providing insights into the lasting impact of imagism on the literary landscape.
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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’.
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