Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A literary movement launched by British and American poets in the early 1900s that advocated the use of free verse, common speech patterns, and clear concrete images as a reaction to Victorian sentimentalism.
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- noun A form of
poetry utilisingprecise imagery andclear language
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- noun a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
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Examples
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We were imagism, cubism, the conventicles and sects respected now by credulous universities.
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I just finished a horrific literature class about the use of minimalism in post modern writing where my teacher degraded me in the most vitriolic manner because my style is so rooted in imagism.
Three Techniques to Avoid Being a Boring Writer | Write to Done 2009
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We were imagism, cubism, the conventicles and sects respected now by credulous universities.
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Meanwhile, the other top two books are both by I think white poets -- one is overtly "political poetry" and the other is lyrical imagism.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Meanwhile, the other top two books are both by I think white poets -- one is overtly "political poetry" and the other is lyrical imagism.
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This second work dealt with many biblical themes and reflected the influence of Jewish culture, as well as imagism and Japanese haiku.
Babette Deutsch. 2009
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It can be a particularly valuable introduction to Wordsworth, whose directness of statement is better judged by the standards of song lyrics than of imagism.
Abstracts 2002
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The relation between imagism and immortality is so obvious as to be invisible.
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He is the poet for people who feel the magic of music and the grandeur of imagination, without being able to lay their finger on the more recondite nuances of "creative work," without so much as ever having heard of "imagism."
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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Miss Lowell's "Patterns" is one of the most effective of contemporary poems, but it is far more than a document of imagism.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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