Imagist Poets
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Imagism was an Anglo-American poetry movement around 1912-1917 that although short lived was influential on modern poetry. Its earliest most famous exponent was Ezra Pound and later Amy Lowell who both outlined the rules for the movement which remain central to current poetry practise and are still imparted to anyone attending poetry workshops. These rules included using only those words that were absolutely necessary, employing the exact word including common speech - not the decorative one, a total freedom of subject matter, making everything concrete - not abstract, creating new rhythms and most important of all was to concentrate everything the poet wished to communicate in a precise image. As Pound said, “It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works.” Despite this radical departure from the Romantics and the Victorian poets that preceded them, Imagists were also classicists reviving the poetry of Sapho and other ancient Greek and Roman as well as Japanese and Chinese verse and 15th century French poetry which often compressed expression to its very essence. This interest in the ancients might seem conservative but the movement was hugely progressive not least for its inclusion of a number of women writers.
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.
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Imagist Poets - D. H. Lawrence
IMAGIST POETS
Imagism was an Anglo-American poetry movement around 1912-1917 that although short lived was influential on modern poetry. Its earliest most famous exponent was Ezra Pound and later Amy Lowell who both outlined the rules for the movement which remain central to current poetry practise and are still imparted to anyone attending poetry workshops. These rules included using only those words that were absolutely necessary, employing the exact word including common speech - not the decorative one, a total freedom of subject matter, making everything concrete - not abstract, creating new rhythms and most important of all was to concentrate everything the poet wished to communicate in a precise image. As Pound said, It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works.
Despite this radical departure from the Romantics and the Victorian poets that preceded them, Imagists were also classicists reviving the poetry of Sapho and other ancient Greek and Roman as well as Japanese and Chinese verse and 15th century French poetry which often compressed expression to its very essence. This interest in the ancients might seem conservative but the movement was hugely progressive not least for its inclusion of a number of women writers.
Index Of Poems
RICHARD ALDINGTON
Childhood
The Poplar
Round-Pond
Daisy
Epigrams
The Faun sees Snow for the First Time
Lemures
H. D.
The Pool
The Garden
Sea Lily
Sea Iris
Sea Rose
Oread
Orion Dead
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
The Blue Symphony
London Excursion
F. S. FLINT
Trees
Lunch
Malady
Accident
Fragment
Houses
Eau-Forte
D. H. LAWRENCE
Ballad of Another Ophelia
Illicit
Fireflies in the Corn
A Woman and Her Dead Husband
The Mowers
Scent of Irises
Green
AMY LOWELL
Venus Transiens
The Travelling Bear
The Letter
Grotesque
Bullion
Solitaire
The Bombardment
RICHARD ALDINGTON
CHILDHOOD
I
The bitterness, the misery, the wretchedness of childhood
Put me out of love with God.
I can't believe in God's goodness;
I can believe
In many avenging gods.
Most of all I believe
In gods of bitter dullness,
Cruel local gods
Who seared my childhood.
II
I've seen people put
A chrysalis in a match-box,
To see,
they told me, what sort of moth would come.
But when it broke its shell
It slipped and stumbled and