Imagism

The Imagists (Lat. imago " image " ) were followers of an Anglo-American literary movement that arose around 1912 and disappeared after the First World War. The writer Thomas Ernest Hulme was one of the first who propagated these ideas in her work.

The Imagists were about to leave in the lyric tradition of Romantic and Victorian literature behind them, feeling their exuberance and artificiality they refused; at the same time they turned against the so-called Georgian poets. Instead, the Imagists placed on the inclusion of slang, to a precise imagery and clear, sharp expression. The rules of rhetoric and metrics should be no more importance be granted. A free rhythm up to the prose found more and more popular.

The group had its center in London, where she recorded a poet from Ireland and the United States in their ranks and also several women, which was conspicuous in the former literary world. The importance of the Group for the literature of the early 20th century. can hardly be overestimated. This becomes evident by the quote from TS Eliot, who later explained:

" The point de repère [ ie the focal point, the orientation mark ], the one normally and the habit after the starting point of modern poetry used as is the group that was called 1910 Imagists in the London of the time. "

In a literary environment that cherished moralizing texts such as the Longfellow and Tennyson, the Imagists were in favor of a return to her eyes classical values ​​as the direct representation, the economy of language and a willingness, even with non-traditional forms experiment. With the tendency to consider "thing" as "thing" to, ie, to isolate a single image to reveal its essence, corresponds to the imagism contemporaneous developments in avant-garde art, particularly Cubism, but said try the Imagists, this isolation means " illuminating details " ( Ezra Pound ) perform, whereas the Cubists operate a synthesis of the single image from different perspectives.

Richard Aldington served as editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. She was, inter alia, as the mouthpiece of the Imagists.

After 1917, some of these theses were current and influenced among others T. S. Eliot.

The following writers is one of the Imagists and their epigones:

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