Imagist Poetry

by Peter Austin Jones

Book Overview

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ... half-melted, lumpy'. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141185708
• ISBN13: 9780141185705
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"