Word: imagistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. This is Richard Aldington's first novel. He is known for criticism, translations and poems. His wife, Hilda Doolittle Aldington, is the Imagist poet...
...Leningrad the notorious "imagist poet," Sergei Yessenin, onetime husband of famed danseuse Isadora Duncan, slashed his wrists with the gesture of suiciding Roman Caesars and hanged himself...
...both her poetry and her criticism, she has achieved a position of eminence. She has held the undisputed leadership in America of the so-called Imagist school of modern poetry. Her research work on Keats and her volume of criticism on modern French poetry have already won fame for her as a scholar. The fact that she has championed the more radical tendencies in modern poetical form has denied her the same fame as a creative artist, but the consensus of opinion among literary critics of the day stamps her as America's foremost living poet...
...resemblance between this relic of past life and certain relics of present life now in the making. There have grown up in the shadow of Flaubert with his dull and unfortunate M. Bovary a race of writers who call themselves "realists." These Realists have much in common with our Imagist poets, especially in the common method of transcribing rather than transmuting whatever of sight or sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into buying...