English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1537 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Imagism and Ezra Pound in London
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The idea
Imagism, led in London by the American Ezra Pound with H.D., Amy Lowell and others, stressed precision and economy of language and the direct presentation of the image. Imagist anthologies appeared between nineteen fourteen and nineteen seventeen. Pound promoted Eliot and Joyce.
In practice
Precise images, few words.
Where people slip
Pound was the movement's promoter.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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