Imagism
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Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered the first organized modernist literary movement in the English langua
The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914.
H.D. in 1917
Richard Aldington in 1931
The American Imagist Amy Lowell, who edited later volumes of Some Imagist Poets; in 1925, Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams was an American-Puerto Rican poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In hi
Portrait by Man Ray, 1924
A selection of William Carlos Williams poetry on a plaque in New York City
I saw the figure 5 in gold. Charles Demuth, 1928. The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. William Carlos Williams 1920.
This Is Just to Say (wall poem in The Hague)