Imagist Poetry (eBook)

PETER JONES (Autor)

PETER JONES (Herausgeber)

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2001
192 Seiten
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-191314-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 stated, it should use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech . It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2001
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• ISBN-10: 0-14-191314-2 / 0141913142
• ISBN-13: 978-0-14-191314-8 / 9780141913148