F.S. Flint

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Life
 Frank Stuart Flint (December 19, 1885 - February 28, 1960) was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country"

Flint was born into a poor London Family, the second of 12 children. He left school at 13 and worked in a variety of menial jobs. At 19 he took night classes, mastering French and Lating and discovering that he had an amazing faculty for languages. He would go on to learn seven more languages.

He is mostly known for his participation in the "School of Images" with Ezra Pound and T. E. Hulme in 1909, of which he gave an account in the "Poetry Review" in 1909, and which was to serve as the theoretical basis for the later imagist movement (1913).

Flint published three books of poetry between 1909 and 1920. He also published on French poets starting in 1908, and published a series of articles on contemporary French poets (1912) that much influenced his contemporaries.

In 1914 he was included by Pound in the first Imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. He entered into a short-lived dispute with Pound as to each one's relative contribution to the Imagist movement.

During the 1930s Flint was among a number of poets who moved away from poetry and towards economics,working for the Statistics Division of the Ministry of Labour writing that "[t]he proper study of mankind is, for the time being, economics" [C K Stead, 'Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement', p. 212]. Flint would go on to publish an article entitled 'The Plain Man and Economics' in The Criterion in 1937.

Poetry

 * In the Net of the Stars , 1909. BiblioBazaar (Jun 2009) ISBN 978-1110858422
 * Cadences, 1915.
 * ''Otherworld, 1920.

Anthologized

 * Des Imagistes, 1914.

Except where indicated, bibliographical information courtesy Modern American Poetry.