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'.
By:
Peter Jones Edited by:
Peter Jones Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 197mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 146g ISBN:9780141185705 ISBN 10: 0141185708 Series:Penguin Modern Classics Pages: 192 Publication Date:13 June 2001 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
