Sun 11 Jan 2009
What was the motivation and inspiration of the imagist movement?
Posted by echan76 under History
walid s asked:
What was the motivation and inspiration of the imagist movement?
That involving culture, politics, and religion..anything of the time really…thank you!!!
What was the motivation and inspiration of the imagist movement?
That involving culture, politics, and religion..anything of the time really…thank you!!!
This q. belongs under “Poetry”. Imagism sought to reinvigorate poetry through a complete economy of language, with a focus on poetry as SONG. Ezra Pound claimed to be the movement’s founder; another member was Hilda Doolittle, who wrote under initials HD. Started just before WWI… part of “modernism” . Pound later did propaganda for Fascist Italy — Nancy Cunard never forgave him, others claimed he went nuts. Still a brilliant poet tho, as was HD Pound idolized the French troubadours, HD was enamored of the Greeks.