Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:03:09 -0400 (EDT) From: David Langston <dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu> Subject: Re: PLC: Wonderful, lovely Thanks for the endorsement; those are kind words which brighten the day. On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Thad Q. Alexander wrote: > What other poets or poems would you say are Imagist that I may look up? > What comes to mind is Sandburg's "Fog" Yes, "Fog" makes use of some imagist techniques, but it departs from imagist poetics by including quite a bit of "connective tissue" which the earliest advocates of imagism believed should be omitted. Since we have been discussing _The Waste Land_ already on this list, you might look at the facsimile version where you can see Ezra Pound's editorial hand at work, excising the narrative connective tissue and giving TWL a stronger imagist flavor. Other imagist poets you might be interested in reading (a list of titles would be too long for a brief message): William Carlos Williams H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Ezra Pound --> see especially his "Station in the Metro" and his account of how he wrote that poem plus his list of instructions for writing an imagist poem Amy Lowell --> (Pound didn't like her stuff and called it "amygism") T. E. Hulme Richard Addington D. H. Lawrence (George Trail might identify which poems to consult) As a program for poetry, imagism didn't hold the allegiance of its early practitioners for very long, but it has had a huge impact on how poetry has been written since then. It is fun to study because its techniques play off a larger aesthetic question of our time, the "aesthetics of the fragment," which has played a role in just about every twentieth century art form. Best, David Langston --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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