This book offers a lively account of the Imagist Poets, the first significant group of modernist poets writing in English. It discusses what their writing achieved, and analyses the theoretical claims of Imagism in relation to its poetic practice. It revises the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and the idea of literary institutions and formations. The book shows the variety of practice within the Imagist group, and shifts the focus from seeing Imagism purely as the creation of Ezra Pound, by granting a much stronger focus to often overlooked figures such as Amy Lowell, F.S. Flint and John Gould Fletcher. The book also examines the cultural formation of Imagism as a movement competing within the artistic avant-garde of London in the early twentieth century.
| ISBN: | 9780746310021 |
| Publication date: | 22nd April 2009 |
| Author: | Andrew Thacker |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Writers and Their Work |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
This book offers a lively account of the Imagist Poets, the first significant group of modernist poets writing in English. It discusses what their writing achieved, and analyses the theoretical claims of Imagism in relation to its poetic practice. It revises the received view of Imagism by drawing upon current re-readings of modernism in terms of gender and sexuality, cultural geography, and the idea of literary institutions and formations. The book shows the variety of practice within the Imagist group, and shifts the focus from seeing Imagism purely as the creation of Ezra Pound, by granting a much stronger focus to often overlooked figures such as Amy Lowell, F.S. Flint and John Gould Fletcher. The book also examines the cultural formation of Imagism as a movement competing within the artistic avant-garde of London in the early twentieth century.
The Imagist Poets features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
The Imagist Poets is available in Paperback
The Imagist Poets was written by Andrew Thacker and published by Liverpool University Press
The Imagist Poets has 128 pages
Yes it is part of Writers and Their Work series