Example Sentences

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My resolve was strengthened as an imagist and I was able to double down on my research.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

It is as if a stanza of imagist poetry by Ezra Pound married a Hitchcock still and birthed a news account.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2017

He was also representing an imagist artist called Stephen Greene, whose work I knew from art magazines back in the forties and fifties.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2017

The best poems in the book are actually a pastiche of one of James Laughlin’s vers d’occasion and a little take-off on “In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound’s imagist classic:

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2015

Some of the "imagist" verse patterns are uniquely and intricately beautiful.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss