Meaning of imagist | Babel Free

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A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism

Examples

“Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.”

“D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.”

“While in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce) or had moved on to other projects (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) without being succeeded by a second generation, for these women Imagism opened up more long-term possibilities.”

“Assessments of H.D.'s early poetry have tended to concentrate on her purely as an Imagist.”

“The Imagists examined the human perceptual habituation and the force of images on the mind.”

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