Poets with tag Imagism:   RUS Movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. As a poetic style it gave Modernism its start in the early 20th century, and is considered to be the first organized Modernist literary movement in the English language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry, in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets, who were generally content to work within that tradition. In contrast, Imagism called for a return to what were seen as more Classical values, such as directness of presentation and economy of language, as well as a willingness to experiment with non-traditional verse forms. Imagists use free verse. A characteristic feature of Imagism is its attempt to isolate a single image to reveal its essence. This feature mirrors contemporary developments in avant-garde art, especially Cubism. Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what Ezra Pound called "luminous details", Pound's Ideogrammic Method of juxtaposing concrete instances to express an abstraction is similar to Cubism's manner of synthesizing multiple perspectives into a single image. "Imagism evolved as a reaction against abstraction ... replacing Victorian generalities with the clarity in Japanese haiku and ancient Greek lyrics." | Name | Years | Country | Tags | Works | Rank| Matsuo Basho | 1644-1694 | JAP | Beat, Haiku, Imagism | 110 | 86 | | Amy Lowell | 1874-1925 | USA | Fantasy, Free verse, Imagism, Modernism | 202 | 120 | | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967 | USA | Children, Imagism, National, Nonsense, Others | 452 | 71 | | William Carlos Williams | 1883-1963 | USA | Beat, Imagism, Modernism, Others, Sentimentalism, Vernacular | 111 | 78 | | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Haiku, Imagism, Modernism, Others | 253 | 70 | | Marianne Moore | 1887-1972 | USA | Imagism, Modernism, Others, Anti-meter | 20 | 325 | | Derek Walcott | 1930- | LCA | Confessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism | 21 | 106 | |
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