It is possible, certainly, as the experiments of contemporary "imagists" prove, to write poetry of a certain type without employing the "loop-line." ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)
"imagists," the idea is to lay the chief stress upon the evocation of clearly outlined shapes -- images clean-cut and sharply defined, and, while personal in their choice, essentially objective in their rendering -- and upon the absence of any traditional "beautiful words" which might blur this direct unvarnished impact of the poet's immediate vision. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
We're fortunate that MoMA was from the start collecting richly from this new and diverse generation, comprised as it is of imagists whom in being less dissident and cliched than their forerunners, show and explorative aptitude for the more nuanced and varied aspects of queer life. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
Of the groundbreaking generation of outrageous queer imagists--Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and John Waters--only Anger and Warhol are represented, though Bronson cites Smith as essential. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
For the record, the other imagists were: Pound's sometime girlfriend Hilda Doolittle, aka HD, and her husband Richard Aldington; FS Flint; John Gould Fletcher; and, a late jumper on the bandwagon, the plump and plutocratic Amy Lowell. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)
Of course, legions of genuine artists from across the Afrikan planet have generated beauty and wonder for millennia, from the sculptors and painters of ancient Nubia and Egypt to the stunning batik-makers of modern Senegal and the CG-imagists of the US. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yeah, imagists and others wrote poems modeled on scraps of Archilochus, Sappho, et. al. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He would not even venture where to place the poetry of the modern imagists in his paradigm. ❋ Unknown (1997)
It is therefore no accident that the contemporary imagists tend to abandon the forms of verse; their poetry has little or no regular rhythm; it approximates to prose. ❋ Dewitt H. Parker (N/A)
If, as I believe, emotional thought rather than imagery is the essence of poetry, then the modern school of imagists and their French forbears among the "Parnassiens" are mistaken. ❋ Dewitt H. Parker (N/A)
The imagists, Ezra Pound in particular, were Chinese long before they discovered Cathay in the works of Ernest Fennellosa. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)
In fact, Claire learned that there may be an almost tolerable state of existence without gardenias or the news about the latest Parisian imagists. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
We should not be afraid to learn from it; and in much of the work of the imagists, and other radical groups, we find a more or less conscious, and more or less effective, yielding to that influence. ❋ Harriet Monroe (1917)
It might almost seem as if every single one of the poets and painters of our age -- all these imagists and post-impressionists and symbolists and the rest -- had done nothing during the sensitive years of their life but brood over the work of William Blake. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
It gives him the key to the hearts of children; to the basic savagery of a primitive black or a poor white; to peripatetic harvesters; to futurists, imagists, blue-stockings, pedants of all kinds; to evangelists, college professors, drunken sailors, tramps whose robes are lined with vermin. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)
He has this in common with the practicers of free verse, with the imagists, with the futurists; he is not in the least afraid of seeming ridiculous. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)
