Has the very best of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Just the right mix. Best collection of poetry I've ever read.

Surely the definitive accessible book on Imagism: immensely valuable both as a scholarly survey/historical account of this movement (both the introduction and appendices are wonderfully detailed) and as a well-structured anthology of some very important and often very accomplished poets. The works themselves, at least for me, did not disappoint. I was faintly amused by how often Jones stressed that a lot of these aren't great poems, but personally relatively few of them actually struck me as les...

A well chosen selection with additional notes to front and back.

Nice language heavy poems. Would recommend.

A good collection and I think introduction to Imagisme. Founded by Ezra Pound in the early 20th century, it is a movement where the image takes priority, and the poem holds a 'concentration of meaning', as a revolt against the "doughy" poetry of the late 19th century which was apparently to flowerly for Pound.It was really nice to finally read poems from H.D. whom I've been meaning to read for a while. Surprisingly loved Ford Maddox Ford's poems as well but this was probably just because they we...

The Imagists were a group of modernist poets that, well, liked images. It’s sort of a given, but the way they explored it was unique and intelligent, at least, as far as the narrative tradition of western poetry went. Great imagists like Pound and Williams drew upon the traditions of eastern poetry. The looked at the haiku form and adapted it into the English language. Pound was very familiar with the orient; having travelled to China and Japan, studying art and literature for numerous years. Ev...

I loveeeeeee 💞💞💞💞 their minds 💓💓💓💓

I usually worry about going to poetry. I especially worry that I won't GET it. Picking up a collection of modernist poetry ... well, I worried even more. But actually I really liked some of the poetry. Some, I'm not going to pretend I liked it all, or even understood them all. But poets like Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound really jumped out of me, returning to them again when finding pieces I liked. Surprising, considering that this was not really in my comfort zone.

The sparse, sublime beauty of concentration and precision! I think Imagism might be my favorite poetic movement, although the confessional poetry of Plath and Sexton is still so dear to me. These words cut me to the quick and only further encouraged my current H.D. obsession. I stayed up late last night reading and started the morning in tears over the beauty of "Rain" by William Carlos Williams, which concludes the array of selected poems:"the rainof her thoughts overthe ocean everywhere walkin...

'The main problem is that the poems the imagists published as a group cannot honestly be called to stand among the great achievements of literature'.The editor's words not mine.This collection gets 2 stars because it is so repetitive and confused and dull. I don't think there is a poem that does not include references to birds, sunsets, the moon or the over use adjectives, particularly colour. In the introduction too it was defined that Pound's ideas of Imagist poetry cut down the verbiage until...

I've been intending to delve into this stuff for a while now, and finally got to reading this. I first became interested because I was impressed with how much better the Richard Aldington translation of Voltaire's Candide was than the Dover edition I read before. It turned out that Aldington was a writer himself and in researching some of his history, I found that as well as being a member of the Imagists, he was married to an Imagist poet, H.D., and so decided to read some. The introduction to

Even the "Imagists" themselves - whoever they were...& they could never decide!- had an image problem with their hide-bound contemporaries in Edwardian Britain; a Britain suffocating in sentimental gush & poetastic flubber! "Imagists" proclaimed a new honesty in poetry, honing down the verbiage to its ascetic bare bones. Ezra Pound,a later 'force terrible' described the current poetry as "a doughty mess of third-hand Keats,Wordsworth...& half-melted,lumpy". His antidote to this mellifluous tilth...

Los imaginistas, el movimiento poético que no sabía que existía y no sabía que me gustaría tanto. Pensar que había un sub grupo para todos aquellos que describen poéticamente un instante, una escena, una imagen... Más aún, teniendo gigantes como Joyce, Pound, WCW me reafirman que me gusta la poesía y me gusta más no saber mucho de ella......porque de esa forma aun me logra sorprender. "If you are using a symmetrical form, don’t put in what you want to say and then fill up the remaining vacuums w...

To the passionate lover, whose sighs came back to him on every breeze, all the world is like a murmuring sea-shell. Allen Upward

Superb introduction by Peter Jones. The anthology itself is thin - largely, one realises, because the idea of Imagism is so vague. Many of the included poets were not involved with Imagisme groups, nor did they wish to be associated with imagism.

H.D. u give me life

A slim volume with some beautiful poems!The introduction and appendices gave some great context and explanation of the 'movement', their ideas and features, which was lovely.

scary thought of the week: rupi kaur and lang leav are actually carrying on a barbarous and twisted version of the imagist poets and the principles they stood for but which is 100% more simplified and doesn't aim to deliver an image in concise language but a feeling in minimalist style which i kinda get but it doesn't make their poetry any Good because where's the literary value in it?

According to the introduction, which is in itself a good enough reason to pick up this slim volume, few Imagist poets were in fact Imagists and they wrote few poems seriously conforming to the Imagist manifesto, but what they did share in common was being refreshingly not-Victorian and the impact of their work was primarily that not many subsequent poets were Victorian either. This was a good thing and some great poets are represented in this collection but their poems, or to be more cautious, t...

A brief selection of works and a broadly sympathetic introduction to the Imagist movement, including some statements of purpose by Ezra Pound, F. S Flint and Amy Lowell. Hilda Doolittle (H.D) and Richard Aldingdon are key members of the group, and DH Lawrence contributed to some of the anthologies they produced.I owe to this book my discovery of the magnificent HD, and richly enjoyed declaiming her poetry into the night. The hostility between Pound and Lowell comes across as the latter derailing...