imagist
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a word derived from
imagism.
imagismnouna theory or practice of a group of poets in England and America between 1909 and 1917 who believed that poetry should employ the language of common speech, create new rhythms, have complete freedom in subject matter, and present a clear, concentrated, and precise image.
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
Robert Lepage, the visionary Canadian imagist, has just been to town with his “Needles and Opium.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
Objectivism, he said, was “the attempt to construct meaning, to construct a method of thought from the imagist intensity of vision.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 8, 2017
Known chiefly as an authority on modern French poetry, F. S. Flint has published several volumes of original imagist poems, besides having translated works of Verhaeren and Jean de Bosschere.
From Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer