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The Poets' Club was a group devoted to the discussion of poetry. It met in London in the early years of the 20th century.
History[]
The club was active by 1907, when its president was Henry Simpson. T.E. Hulme had joined the club by 1908, and served for a time as its recording secretary.[1]
Hulme wrote a charter document, "Rules 1908". The group comprised mainly amateurs and met once a month, excluding the summer months of July, August, and September, for dinner, the reading of poems, and the presentation of short (20 minute) papers on various topics relating to poetry. Around the end of 1908 Hulme read the club his seminal work A Lecture on Modern Poetry.
The club produced several anthologies, the earliest being For Christmas MDCCCCVIII (issued January 1909), which included and 2 of Hulme's poems, "Autumn" and "A City Sunset".[1] These are regarded as the earliest published examples of Imagism.
In 1909, Hulme began a side-project with F.S. Flint , both a critic and a friend of the Poets' Club, called "The School of Images," introducing Ezra Pound to the group in April 1909. This group lasted less than a year but anticipated and motivated the Imagist movement.
The Book of the Poets' Club was released in December 1909. This included 2 more poems by Hulme, "Conversion" and "The Embankment," and 4 by Pound: "In Epitaphium," Epigram," "Song," and Paracelsis in Excelsis."[1]
The Book of the Poets Club II was released in December 1911.[1] Although it is hard to tell exactly (since many of the poets used only their initials), at least 6 women were represented in the volume: Katherine Miller, Sibyl Amherst, Marion Cran, Dollie Radford, Lily Hodgkinson, Regina Miriam Bloch, and actress and director Florence Farr.[2]
The 4th and final anthology of the Poets' Club, The Book of the Poets' Club III, was issued in December 1913.[1] Poets represented included John Todhunter, E. Nesbit, Victor Plarr, Henry Simpson, Alexander von Herder, A. St. John Adcock, Selwyn Image, and Margaret Scott Thomson.
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References[]
- Patrick McGuinness (editor), T.E. Hulme: Selected Writings, Fyfield Books, Carcanet Press, 1998. ISBN 1-85754-362-9 (page xii)
- Jewel Spears Brooker, Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996, ISBN 1-55849-040-X. (page 48)
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cyrena N. Podrom, "The Book of the Poets' Club and Pound's 'School of Images'," Journal of Modern Literature 3:1 (February 1973), 100-102. Web, Jan. 26, 2021.
- ↑ Norrie Guthrie, Poets' Club Books, What's in Woodson, December 19, 2017. Web, Jan. 26, 2021.
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