Imagism

By kiaraed

  • Early ideas develop.

    T.E. Hulme was proposing to the Poets' Club in London a poetry based on absolutely accurate presentation of its subject with no excess verbiage.
  • Period: to

    Imagist Movement

  • Imagism was officially launched.

    Ezra Pound read and marked up a poem by Hilda Doolittle, signed it "H.D. Imagiste," and sent it to Harriet Monroe at Poetry.

  • Ezra Pound publishes Ripostes.

    Ezra Pound published his book Ripostes with an appendix called The Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme, which included the word Imagiste in print for the first time.

  • Pound publishes "In a Station of the Metro."

    This poem was published in 1913 in Poetry, a literary magazine. It is one of Ezra Pound's best-known works and was exemplary of the Imagist movement.

  • Imagist anthology was published

    Collected work by William Carlos Williams, Richard Aldington, and James Joyce, as well as H.D. and Pound.
  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Acrticle on history of Imagism published in The Egoist

    Pound and Flint fell out over their different interpretations of the history and goals of the group arising from an article.

  • Amy Lowell published "Opal."