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- A movement in Anglo-American poetry which
- flourished 1912-14 and affected much US and
- British poetry and critical thinking
- thereafter. A central figure was Ezra Pound,
- who asserted the principles of free verse,
- hard imagery, and poetic impersonality. Pound
- encouraged Hilda Doolittle to sign her verse
- H D Imagiste and in 1914 edited the Des
- Imagistes anthology. Poets subsequently
- influenced by this movement include T S
- Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace
- Stevens, and Marianne Moore. Imagism
- established modernism in English-language
- verse.
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