Imagist Movement

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1.

Imagism & the Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry
by Glenn Hughes. 290 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

Part I: Imagism

I The Origins of Imagism

II Imagism As a Movement

III The Critical Reaction

IV The Prose-Poetry Controversy

Part II: The Imagists

V Richard Aldington:: The Rebel

VI H. D.:: The Perfect Imagist

VII John Gould Fletcher:: Pictorialist and Mystic

VIII F. S. Flint:: The Londoner

IX D. H. Lawrence:: The Passionate Psychologist

X Amy Lowell:: The Success

XI Ezra Pound:: Poet, Pedagogue, Propagandist, etc.

Bibliography

Index
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Poetry and the Modern World: A Study of Poetry in England between 1900 and 1939 (Chap. IV "War Poetry -- The Imagists -- Post-War Satire -- The Sitwells")
by David Daiches. 252 pgs.

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TO MY BROTHER LIONEL HENRY DAICHES

FOREWORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I: The Legacy of Victorianism: Poetry at The End of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter II: Thomas Hardy--A. E. Housman-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Chapter III: Georgian Poetry

Chapter IV: War Poetry--The Imagists--Post-War Satire-The Sitwells

Chapter V: T. E. HULME AND T. S. ELIOT

Chapter VI: T. S. ELIOT

Chapter VII: W. B. YEATS--I

Chapter VIII: W. B. Yeats--II

Chapter IX: Poetry in the 1930's. I: Cecil Day Lewis

Chapter X: Poetry in the 1930's. II: W. H. Auden And Stephen Spender

EPILOGUE

INDEX
3.

The Georgian Revolt, 1910-1922: Rise and Fall of a Poetic Ideal ("Imagism" begins on p. 46)
by Robert H. Ross. 298 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Illustrations

1. the Literary Scene: 1911

2. Sound and Fury

3. Harold Monro

4. Edward Marsh

5. Poetry in the Marketplace

6. Georgian Summer

7. War and the Georgians

8. the Literary Scene: 1918-1922

9. Decline and Fall

10. the Failure of Imagination

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index
4.

A History of American Letters ("The 'New Poetry': The Imagists" begin on p. 390)
by Walter Fuller Taylor, Harry Hartwick. 682 pgs.

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Part One: Echoes of the Renaissance and Reformation

Part Two: The Shaping of the National Ideals

Part Three: The Nineteenth Century (1800-1870) Romantic Art in an Agrarian Republic

Chapter One: The Romantic Impulse and the American Environment

Chapter Two: The Middle States: Romanticism and The Profession of Letters

Chapter Three: The New England Renaissance: Romanticism And the Puritan Legacy

Chapter Four: The Old South: Romanticism, the Planter Aristocracy, and the Back Country

Chater Five: Toward Modern America: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Part Four: The Nineteenth Century 1870-1900 Toward Realistic Art in an Urban Industrialism

Chapter One: The Changing Age and the Realistic Impulse

Chapter Two: The Fiction of Regionalism

Chapter Three: From Regionalism to Criticism in Poetry

Chapter Four: Emerging Types of Realism

Chapter Five: Heralds of the Modern Temper

Part Five: Realism and Romanticism in the Age of Multiplicity

Chapter One: The Twentieth-Century Background

Chapter Two: Central Currents in Poetry and Fiction

Chapter Three: Revolt and Experiment

Chapter Four: The Romantic Escape

Chapter Five: Divergent Trends

Prefatory Note

Index
5.

The Struggle of the Modern (Chap. IV "The Seminal Image")
by Stephen Spender. 274 pgs.

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Introduction

Part One: The Modern Imagination

I: The Romantic Imagination

II: The Organic, the Orchidaceous, The Intellectualized

III: Imagination is Personal

Part Two: The Obsessive Situation

I: Moderns and Contemporaries

IV: The Seminal Image

V: Poetic Moderns and Prose Contemporaries

VI: A Short History of the Pers. Pron. 1st Sing. Nom.

VII: The World of Mechanical Metamorphosis

Part Three: Non-Recognizers, Recognizers, And Over-Recognizers

I: Non-Recognizers

II: The Recognizers

III: Dialogue with a Recognizer

Part Four: The Reversal of the Modern

I: Tradition-Bound Literature And Traditionless Painting

III: The Neo-Traditionalists

IV: The Nostalgic Fallacy

VI: The Modern and the Now
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American Poetry since 1900 ("The Imagists" begins on p. 305)
by Louis Untermeyer. 410 pgs.

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Illustrations

Introduction: Background

I

Robert Frost

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Carl Sandburg

Vachel Lindsay

Edgar Lee Masters

II

Amy Lowell

Ezra Pound

Conrad Aiken

Alfred Kreymborg and "Others"

III

The Lyricists -- 1

The Lyricists--2

The Rhapsodists

The Traditionalists

IV

The Imagists

The Impressionists

The Expressionists

The Cerebralists

V

Native Rhythms

Other Voices

Index
7.

The New Era in American Poetry (1919) ("'H. D.' and the Imagists" begins on p. 291)
by Louis Untermeyer. 374 pgs.

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Prefatory Note

Contents

Introduction: The New Spirit

Robert Frost

James Oppenheim

Vachel Lindsay.

Carl Sandburg

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Amy Lowell

Edgar Lee Masters

Arturo Giovannitti

Ezra Pound

John Hall Wheelock

Charles Erskine Scott Wood

BenÉt, Bynner and Brody

Sara Teasdale and The Lyricists

"H. D." and the Imagists

Others

And Others

Conclusion--The Melting Pot

Index
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Propertius: Modernist Poet of Antiquity
by D. Thomas Benediktson. 182 pgs.

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Preface

1: The Propertian Ring

2: The Propertian Stream

3: The Propertian Leitmotif

4: The Propertian Vortex

5: Propertius' Poetics of Imagism

6: Propertius in the Renaissance and Beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay (1938)
by Louis MacNeice. 210 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

1 A Change of Attitude

Ii My Case-Book: Childhood

Iii My Case-Book: Public School

Iv My Case-Book: Oxford

V The Personal Factor

Vi Imagery

Vii Rhythm and Rhyme

Viii Diction

Ix Obscurity

X Lighter Poetry and Drama

Xi Conclusion
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Thinking and Experience (Chap. VIII "The Imagist Theory of Thinking")
by H. H. Price. 365 pgs.

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Chapter I: Universals and Resemblances

Chapter II: Recognition

Chapter III: Errors of Recognition

Chapter IV: Signification

Chapter V: The Logic of Sign Cognition

Chapter VI: Signs and Symbols

Chapter VII: Signs, Symbols and Ostensive Definitions

Chapter VIII: The Imagist Theory of Thinking

Chapter IX: Images as General Symbols

Chapter X: The Classical Theory of Thinking

Chapter XI Concepts and Their Manifestations

Index

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