Word: imagist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong, most...
...Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...hung in Lowell House, and the second in the University's portrait collection since early in Harvard history. Miss Lowell who, according to legend, smoked big, black cigars, and said. "I'm the only member of the Lowell family who is worth a damn," was one of the foremost Imagist poets...
...Author- At 15 Englishman Aldington (born 1892) had made up his mind that writing was the life for him, married a writer [Imagist Poetess Hilda ("H. D.'') Doolittle] to make doubly sure. But the War made a soldier of him, left him shell-shocked for nine years. This interim he filled up with separating from his wife, writing verse, translating some 20 volumes from French, Italian, Latin. Greek. Now, recovered, he spends as much time as possible in France and Italy, thrives on writing books about human vanities more, shocking than war's shells...
...Author was shell-shocked in the War, in which he served as an infantry officer, British Expeditionary Force. He was a poet before that. Married in 1913 to "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle), U. S. born imagist poet, he no longer lives with her. Demobilization found him penniless, jobless, touchy. A reviewing job on the London Times Literary Supplement was soon too much for his nerves; translation has given him his bread & butter. An Englishman born & bred. Aldington has left what he thinks is a sinking ship, lives in the south of France. Other books: War & Love, Images of Desire, Death...