After quarrels over the first Imagist anthology, Des Imagistes, six poets published their work together under a new name: Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell. Each is represented by a group of poems, and the preface sets out the movement’s principles of common speech, exact images, new rhythms and hard, clear concentration.
A landmark of modernist poetry in English, short and essential for anyone tracing where free verse began. Download the free EPUB.