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imagistic

  • a word derived from imagism.
    imagism
    noun
    a 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.

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The vertical integration of the lighting, the merch, how those imagistic components correlate to the music.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

The modernists won the day, and the discrete, imagistic verse of Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore eventually crowded out the more decadent, romantic lyrics of Millay and Sara Teasdale.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2022

But his artistic lexicon, which from the beginning was material- and process-oriented, has become gradually more imagistic.

From Washington Post Mar. 3, 2021

Her work shared some of the imagistic, cosmopolitan qualities of the prominent Misty Poets circle, which included such figures as Bei Dao and Haizi.

From The New Yorker Apr. 30, 2019

In order, however, to emphasize the importance of imagination, by which he largely means the imagistic liveliness of the poet’s mind, he allows that the imagination is secondary only in didactic or ethical poetry.

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson