What is Imagism?
Around 1912 in London, England, a few British and US poets led by Ezra Pound, began a poetic movement that became known as imagism. Simply put, imagism is writing poetry that evokes an image, then refusing to comment further about the image. The group of Imagists were proponents of clarity and conciseness, and they wrote lyric poetry. Poems were built around a single image and had a looser rhythm. Some famous Imagists were Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), D.H. Lawrence, F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, Ford Madox Ford and William Carlos Williams.
