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imagist

  • 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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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

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

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

In the seventeenth chapter it is shown that one type of the Intimate might be classed as imagist.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

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