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A review by slow_spines
Imagist Poetry by William Carlos Williams, Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Edward Storer, Amy Lowell, T.E. Hulme, Peter Austin Jones
informative
3.0
A good overview of the "movement", along with a selection of poems from a colourful bunch of adherents. Interesting that none of the core group (except Pound) found any lasting fame, but those that skirted the edges did. The poetry itself is - as the editor admits - a mixed bag. But ultimately they're the poems of people experimenting with new rules, and some experiments fail. The inclusion of pre and post-imagism poems nicely bookends the selection.