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    Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology
    Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology
    Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology
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    Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology

    By H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence and

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      Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology - H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Imagist Poets, 1916, by

      Richard Aldington and Hilda Doolittle and John Gould Fletcher and Amy Lowell and D. H. Lawrence and F. S. Flint

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      Title: Some Imagist Poets, 1916

      An Annual Anthology

      Author: Richard Aldington

      Hilda Doolittle

      John Gould Fletcher

      Amy Lowell

      D. H. Lawrence

      F. S. Flint

      Release Date: September 18, 2011 [EBook #37469]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1916 ***

      Produced by Michael Roe and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was

      produced from scanned images of public domain material

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      The New Poetry Series

      PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      IRRADIATIONS. SAND AND SPRAY. John Gould Fletcher.

      SOME IMAGIST POETS.

      JAPANESE LYRICS. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn.

      AFTERNOONS OF APRIL. Grace Hazard Conkling.

      THE CLOISTER: A VERSE DRAMA. Emile Verhaeren.

      INTERFLOW. Geoffrey C. Faber.

      STILLWATER PASTORALS AND OTHER POEMS. Paul Shivell.

      IDOLS. Walter Conrad Arensberg.

      TURNS AND MOVIES, AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE. Conrad Aiken.

      ROADS. Grace Fallow Norton.

      GOBLINS AND PAGODAS. John Gould Fletcher.

      SOME IMAGIST POETS. 1916.

      A SONG OF THE GUNS. Gilbert Frankau.

      MOTHERS AND MEN. Harold T. Pulsifer.

      SOME IMAGIST POETS, 1916

      SOME IMAGIST POETS

      1916

      AN ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      The Riverside Press Cambridge

      1916

      COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Published May 1916

      THIRD IMPRESSION

      PREFACE

      In bringing the second volume of Some Imagist Poets before the public, the authors wish to express their gratitude for the interest which the 1915 volume aroused. The discussion of it was widespread, and even those critics out of sympathy with Imagist tenets accorded it much space. In the Preface to that book, we endeavoured to present those tenets in a succinct form. But the very brevity we employed has lead to a great deal of misunderstanding. We have decided, therefore, to explain the laws which govern us a little more fully. A few people may understand, and the rest can merely misunderstand again, a result to which we are quite accustomed.

      In the first place Imagism does not mean merely the presentation of pictures. Imagism refers to the manner of presentation, not to the subject. It means a clear presentation of whatever the author wishes to convey. Now he may wish to convey a mood of indecision, in which case the poem should be indecisive; he may wish to bring before his reader the constantly shifting and changing lights over a landscape, or the varying attitudes of mind of a person under strong emotion, then his poem must shift and change to present this clearly. The exact word does not mean the word which exactly describes the object in itself, it means the exact word which brings the effect of that object before the reader as it presented itself to the poet's mind at the time of writing the poem. Imagists deal but little with similes, although much of their poetry is metaphorical. The reason for this is that while acknowledging the figure to be an integral part of all poetry, they feel that the constant imposing of one figure upon another in the same poem blurs the central effect.

      The great French critic, Remy de Gourmont, wrote last Summer in La France that the Imagists were the descendants of the French Symbolistes. In the Preface to his Livre des Masques, M. de Gourmont has thus described Symbolisme: "Individualism in literature, liberty of art, abandonment of existing forms.... The sole excuse which a man can have for writing is to write down himself, to unveil for others the sort of world which mirrors itself

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