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Des Imagistes

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Des Imagistes
Author Ezra Pound (editor)
Country New York and London
Subject(s) Imagist poetry
Publisher The Glebe; Charles and Albert Boni; Poetry Bookshop
Publication date February 1914

Des Imagistes was the earliest anthology of the Imagist movement in modern poetry .

Poets represented[]

The 11 authors featured were: Richard Aldington, Skipwith Cannell, John Cournos, H.D., F.S. Flint, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Allen Upward, and William Carlos Williams.

History[]

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Ezra Pound, editor of Des Imagistes.

Des Imagistes was edited by Ezra Pound, and originally published in literary magazine The Glebe as Vol. 1, No. 5 (February 1914). It was published as a book later that year by Charles and Albert Boni in New York, and by Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London.[1]

Pound's editorial choices were based on what he saw as the degree of sympathy that the writers displayed with Imagist precepts, rather than their active participation in a group. Williams, who was based in the United States, had not participated in any of the discussions of the Imagists meeting at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London. However, he and Pound had long been corresponding on the question of the renewal of poetry along similar lines. Ford was included at least partly because of his strong influence on Pound as the younger poet made the transition from his earlier, Pre-Raphaelite-influenced, style towards a harder, more modern way of writing.

Aldington later wrote regarding the title: "What Ezra thought that meant remains a mystery, unless the word "Anthologie" was assumed to precede it. Amy Lowell's anthologies were called Some Imagist Poets, so she may have supposed that Ezra thought "Des Imagistes" meant "Quelques Imagistes." But why a French title for a collection of poems by a bunch of young American and English authors? Search me. Ezra liked foreign titles."[2]

See also[]

v · d · eEzra Pound
Family

Omar Pound – Thaddeus C. Pound – Mary de Rachewiltz – Olga Rudge – Dorothy Shakespear – William Wadsworth

Friends

Richard Aldington – Basil Bunting – Hilda Doolittle – T.S. Eliot – E.E. Cummings – Ford Madox Ford – Robert Frost – Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Ernest Hemingway – T.E. Hulme – James Joyce – Hugh Kenner – D.H. Lawrence – Wyndham Lewis – Charles Elkin Mathews – Archibald MacLeish – Marianne Moore – Eustace Mullins – Olivia Shakespear – Allen Tate – William Carlos Williams – William Butler Yeats – Louis Zukofsky

Poems
Other work

ABC of Reading – Le Testament de Villon

Styles

Imagism – Des Imagistes – Modernist poetry in English – Pound's Ideogrammic Method – Vorticism

Magazines, publishers

BLAST – James Laughlin – Charles Elkin Mathews – New Directions – Poetry – The Dial – The Egoist – The Little Review – The New Age – The New Freewoman

Miscellaneous

A ZBC of Ezra Pound – Bollingen Prize – Ernest Fenollosa – List of cultural references in The Cantos – Lost generation – Schloss Brunnenburg – St. Elizabeths Hospital – Visits to St. Elizabeths

Categories

References[]

  • Churchill, Suzanne. "Making Space for Others: A History of a Modernist Little Magazine" in Journal of Modern Literature, Volume: 22. Issue: 1. 1998.

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Monfort, Nick et al. "Des Imagistes", desimagistes.com, accessed October 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ *Aldington, Richard. Life for Life's Sake, The Viking Press, 1941, p. 137.

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