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    Imagist Poets
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    Imagist Poets

    By D. H. Lawrence

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    Imagism was an Anglo-American poetry movement around 1912-1917 that although short lived was influential on modern poetry. Its earliest most famous exponent was Ezra Pound and later Amy Lowell who both outlined the rules for the movement which remain central to current poetry practise and are still imparted to anyone attending poetry workshops. These rules included using only those words that were absolutely necessary, employing the exact word including common speech - not the decorative one, a total freedom of subject matter, making everything concrete - not abstract, creating new rhythms and most important of all was to concentrate everything the poet wished to communicate in a precise image. As Pound said, “It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works.” Despite this radical departure from the Romantics and the Victorian poets that preceded them, Imagists were also classicists reviving the poetry of Sapho and other ancient Greek and Roman as well as Japanese and Chinese verse and 15th century French poetry which often compressed expression to its very essence. This interest in the ancients might seem conservative but the movement was hugely progressive not least for its inclusion of a number of women writers.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateDec 10, 2013
    ISBN9781783946587
    Imagist Poets
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    D. H. Lawrence

    David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.

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      Imagist Poets - D. H. Lawrence

      IMAGIST POETS

      Imagism was an Anglo-American poetry movement around 1912-1917 that although short lived was influential on modern poetry.  Its earliest most famous exponent was Ezra Pound and later Amy Lowell who both outlined the rules for the movement which remain central to current poetry practise and are still imparted to anyone attending poetry workshops.  These rules included using only those words that were absolutely necessary, employing the exact word including common speech - not the decorative one, a total freedom of subject matter, making everything concrete - not abstract, creating new rhythms and most important of all was to concentrate everything the poet wished to communicate in a precise image.  As Pound said, It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works.

      Despite this radical departure from the Romantics and the Victorian poets that preceded them, Imagists were also classicists reviving the poetry of Sapho and other ancient Greek and Roman as well as Japanese and Chinese verse and 15th century French poetry which often compressed expression to its very essence.  This interest in the ancients might seem conservative but the movement was hugely progressive not least for its inclusion of a number of women writers. 

      Index Of Poems

      RICHARD ALDINGTON

      Childhood                                                 

      The Poplar                                                

      Round-Pond                                              

      Daisy                                                     

      Epigrams                                                  

      The Faun sees Snow for the First Time        

      Lemures                                                   

      H. D.

      The Pool                                                  

      The Garden                                              

      Sea Lily                                                  

      Sea Iris                                                  

      Sea Rose                                                

      Oread                                                     

      Orion Dead                                              

      JOHN GOULD FLETCHER

      The Blue Symphony                                         

      London Excursion                                          

      F. S. FLINT

      Trees                                                     

      Lunch                                                    

      Malady                                                  

      Accident                                                

      Fragment                                                  

      Houses                                                    

      Eau-Forte                                                

      D. H. LAWRENCE

      Ballad of Another Ophelia                          

      Illicit                                                   

      Fireflies in the Corn                              

      A Woman and Her Dead Husband                              

      The Mowers                                                

      Scent of Irises                                           

      Green                                                     

      AMY LOWELL

      Venus Transiens                                           

      The Travelling Bear                                       

      The Letter                                                

      Grotesque                                                 

      Bullion                                                   

      Solitaire                                                 

      The Bombardment                                           

      RICHARD ALDINGTON

      CHILDHOOD

      I

      The bitterness, the misery, the wretchedness of childhood

      Put me out of love with God.

      I can't believe in God's goodness;

      I can believe

      In many avenging gods.

      Most of all I believe

      In gods of bitter dullness,

      Cruel local gods

      Who seared my childhood.

      II

      I've seen people put

      A chrysalis in a match-box,

      To see, they told me, what sort of moth would come.

      But when it broke its shell

      It slipped and stumbled and

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