Imagism

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20th-century literary movement literary movement modernist movement poetic movement

Imagism was an early 20th-century poetic movement that emphasized precise imagery, clear language, and economy of expression, strongly influencing the development of modernist poetry.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	20th-century literary movement → literary movement → modernist movement → poetic movement →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom → United States →
emphasizes	brevity → exact word choice → sensory experience → visual images →
endTime	around 1917 →
floruit	1912 → 1913 → 1914 →
genre	poetry →
hasCorePrinciple	compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome → direct treatment of the thing → use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation →
hasMainCharacteristic	avoidance of abstraction → clear language → compression → concrete detail → direct treatment of the subject → economy of expression → free verse → precise imagery → rhythms of musical phrase rather than metronome →
hasNotableProponent	Amy Lowell → D. H. Lawrence → Ezra Pound → F. S. Flint → Ford Madox Ford → H.D. → James Joyce → John Gould Fletcher → Richard Aldington → William Carlos Williams →
hasNotableText	A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste → Imagisme →
hasNotableWork	Cathay → Des Imagistes → Sea Garden → Some Imagist Poets →
influenced	American modernist poetry → British modernist poetry → Ezra Pound → H.D. → Objectivist poetry → T. S. Eliot → Vorticism → William Carlos Williams → modernist poetry →
influencedBy	French Symbolism → Greek lyric poetry → classical Chinese poetry → classical Japanese poetry → haiku → tanka →
language	English →
movementCenter	London → New York City → Paris →
opposedTo	Georgian poetry → Victorian poetic diction → romantic vagueness →
partOf	modernism →
startTime	1908 →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Amy Lowell → Ezra Pound →	movement
Modernism →	associatedWith
Imagism ("Imagisme") →	hasNotableText
Black Mountain poets ("Objectivist poets") →	influencedBy
San Francisco Renaissance ("Objectivist poetry") →	movementInfluencedBy