...Brendan Jackson Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Fulsomeness of her Prolixity : Reflections on H. D., Imagiste Brendan Jackson From its inception the lmagist movement was associated with the ideal of concision. The second of the three precepts announced in F. S. Flint...

... in this issue. 1 The Background of Modern Poetry (London, 1951), chap. iii. 3 Ibid. Notes Toward a History of Imagism 263 Moreover, in 1954 he reported, without comment, that Robert Frost had told him that Flint was responsible for the imagist move­ ment in poetry, not Ezra Pound, nor T. E. Hulme. 3...

..., it is rediscovered and intoxicating; but in the second, it is crowded out by the stress of travail, by the pangs of a birth which has not yet occurred. The first stage is represented by Robinson and Frost, the second by Masters and Sandburg, the third by the Imagists H. D. and John Gould Fletcher. No one, I...

... deal more. In an effort to define the characteristics of the Imagist poem that are basic to Modernism, I once listed what might be called the Five I s of Modernism : I Instantaneity (of Time) 11 Impersonality (of Viewpoint) III Intensity (of Feeling) IV Irregularity, or Asymmetry (of Form) V Immanence...

... first step is to print what is ostensibly a paragraph from Those Were the Days, an article Ford wrote as a preface to the Imagist Anthology of 1930. In fact, however, this paragraph consists of matter that covers five pages of Ford s text. From the points he makes on the few clauses selected...

... and imagism. One relates to verse, the other to vision. Yet while the two have no necessary connection they Walt Whitman to His Followers 223 grow out of similar conditions of modern thought and often accompany each other. But not always! Emily Dickinson has been called an early imagist poet. She was also...

... and often morbid realism, repre­ sented by the work of Robert Frost and Edgar Lee Masters; on the other, an effort to make poetry a vehicle of pure beauty the aim of the group who call themselves Imagists. Mr. Conrad Aiken is not to be catalogued in either of these groups, but he is much more nearly akin...

... called Imagists, during the years when Pound was championing Vorticism and Lowell s Imagist anthologies were published. Pound had tried to prevent her from using the term Imagist: I think your idea most excellent, only 1 think your annual anthology should be called Vers Libre or something of that sort...

... that is frequently admired. Mr. Aldington appeared first on the poetic scene as an Imagist. Imagism, however, was but a phase and has almost disappeared unless it survives in his own work and that of H. D. (Mrs. Aldington). It has developed into something else, and that something appears also in Mr. Aldington...

... and vented the full force of their spleen on the country, the incarnation of materialism, effi­ ciency, and hopeless mediocrity. Pound was at least consistent in his alienation: he left America and stayed away. He was active in the Imagist movement, published anthologies, composed manifestoes, defined...

... on Pound in Paideuma. The late Ben D. Kimpel was Professor of English at the University of Arkansas and author, with T. C. Duncan Eaves, of Samuel Richardson. William Pratt is Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has edited The Imagist Poem and The Fugitive Poets. His trans­ lations...

... of the Brontes. Because of its pioneer nature, the book offers further direction for exploration. May Sinclair s affinities with the Imagists and, perhaps more importantly, with Meredith (and their common ground the psychological novel) demand additional commentary. Her own works might benefit from extended...

... framework is not very important. It allows Mr. Dembo a string on which to thread his chapters, most of which are distinguished by perceptive and well-argued insights and analyses. Among his most clear and helpful chapters are those dis­ cussing H.D. as an Imagist, John Gould Fletcher as an Aesthetic Mys­...

... of Metaphysical poetry, with which we are not at present concerned, it works admirably for Sandburg, as in his imagistic fog that comes/ on little cat feet, or the Stuff of the moon in Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, which Runs on the lapping sand Out to the longest shadows. Under the curving willows...

..., of course, led the foray of Poetry against the poetical establishment with the Imagist pronunciamento of 1913. He also in­ troduced Frost, Eliot, and Williams, among others, to the magazine and secured W.B. Yeats s helpful if condescending support for it. Harriet Monroe was always nervous about Eliot...

... that for the first time sounds like a full record. Ezra Pound, of course, led the foray of Poetry against the poetical establishment with the Imagist pronunciamento of 1913. He also in­ troduced Frost, Eliot, and Williams, among others, to the magazine and secured W.B. Yeats s helpful if condescending support...

... to the round out­ flow of passion, the mounting graph of whose intensity has, with the exception of the sterile work of the Imagists, marked the rebirth of what Mr. Williams regards as true poetry, following that equally sterile period, 1900-1910, dominated by the poetry of the Georgians. The Tittle...

... the derision of one s friends, are reading a free-verse poem daily without pro­ test or repining. Even if unable to recognize an Imagist when we see or hear one, we read what is given us and do not com­ plain if we are not able to understand or criticize, since the possession of a critical faculty on the part...

... and Eliot. Merely imagistic poems, like those of Wilde and Symons, are inferior to those which explore or at least acknowledge the social and moral substructures of the city, like those of Baudelaire? (Thesing quotes a rather uncharacter­ istic poem of Baudelaire s, 1 believe, and reads Wilde s...

.... as an Imagist, John Gould Fletcher as an Aesthetic Mys­ tic, E. E. Cummings as the Now Man, and the four neo-epic poets as conscious failures which explains why Pound s Cantos, Eliot s Four Quartets, Crane s The Bridge, and Williams Paterson are structured on the principle of repeated new starts within each...