Imagism - Wikipedia Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language It is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language [1] Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development
A Brief Guide to Imagism - Academy of American Poets A Brief Guide to Imagism - Imagism was born in England and America in the early twentieth century A reactionary movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry, imagism emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images
Imagism | Literature, Poetry, Examples, Time Period, Ezra Pound . . . Imagism was a Modernist literary movement that centered on a group of American and English poets whose poetic manifesto was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound The Imagists wrote succinct verse of dry clarity and hard outline in which an exact visual image made a total poetic statement
Imagism: An Introduction – Literary Theory and Criticism Influenced by the poetic theory of TE Hulme and by the style of Japanese Haiku, Imagism emerged as a movement spearheaded by Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Amy Lowell and others, revolting against the looseness of texture of the Georgian poetry, and endorsing a concept of condensed poetry that 1) abandons conventional materials and versification
Imagism | The Poetry Foundation An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter
Imagism - New World Encyclopedia Imagism was a movement in early twentieth century Anglo–American poetry that favored precision of imagery, and clear, sharp language, as opposed to decorous language and unnecessary meter and rhyme The Imagists rejected the sentiment and artifice typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry
What is Imagism? | Definition, Analysis Examples - Perlego Imagism was a literary movement instigated by a small group of American and British writers in the early twentieth-century, where it coalesced and clashed with many other ‘isms’— Dadaism, Futurism, Vorticism, Cubism —that are all woven into the much larger tangled tapestry of modernism
IMAGISM Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of IMAGISM is a 20th century movement in poetry advocating free verse and the expression of ideas and emotions through clear precise images
Overview of Imagism in Poetry - ThoughtCo This was the central aim of imagism — to make poems that concentrate everything the poet wishes to communicate into a precise and vivid image, to distill the poetic statement into an image rather than using poetic devices like meter and rhyme to complicate and decorate it