Imagism

English Noun - en imagism. en 1989 Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists Brian Trehearne 40 The same will be true of Imagism: a certain degree of variation from a purist definition of the school will take us to a kind of poetry that “Imagism" can no longer describe, although we may still wish to speak of Imagistic tendencies or echoes in the derivative verse. en 2001 A History of Free Verse Chris Beyers 135 In contrast, the short-line poetry that flowered in Imagism offers a kind of homogeneity that follows its own set of decorums, tending to exclude other modes. en 2001 H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers Georgina Taylor 81 While in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce) or had moved on to other projects (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) without being succeeded by a second generation, for these women Imagism opened up more long-term possibilities.