Word: imagist
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...combined role as archromantic and Peck's bad boy of modern poetry naturally enough. Boyhood in Cambridge and Harvard ('15) gave him a New England intellectual's self-assurance and the Thoreauesque tradition of rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said: "I can express...
...latter-day little magazine has developed its own stereotypes, on hand in these pages as if answering a roll call. There is the tough-guy-meet-Zen school, whose usually quite high priest is William (Naked Lunch) Burroughs. There is the mumbling, imagist-naturalist prose that reflects life as if seen through a speckled barroom mirror. There is a scattering of earnest erotica. Much of all this displays the four-letteracy with which very young authors prove to the world that they are grown...
Died. Hilda Doolittle, 75, Pennsylvania-born expatriate poet (Sea Garden, By Avon River), whose carefully chiseled lyric verse, signed "H.D.," represented the high-water mark of the imagist movement that before World War I broke away from formalized poetry into "words that make images"; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland. Sample image...
...first art Hulme created when he returned to London in 1908, at the age of 25, was imagist poetry. Hulme preached the primacy of the image, since he believed that man's only sure grasp of reality was through analogy and metaphor. Though his disciple Ezra Pound gave the school its name and became its chief panjandrum, it was Hulme who wrote the first imagist verse, including what T. S. Eliot has called "two or three of the most beautiful short poems in the language." Sample...
Author Fielding writes a torrential prose, and his imagist phrases, fabulous incident, antic characters and peripheral violence whip the story forward. He shares with the late Joyce Gary the belief that a novel's most important qualities are narrative and action. Too many writers, complains Fielding, fill their books "with things which rightly should be confined to their diaries, their lavatories or their psychiatrists." His greatest strength-dramatic invention-contributes to his greatest weakness: over-plotting...