Noun
a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
Source: WordNetImagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it. John Gould Fletcher
After meeting the poet Ezra Pound, Lowell became an enthusiastic supporter of the poetic movement called “Imagism.” Source: Internet
However, Pound learned that Imagism did not lend itself well to the writing of an epic, so he turned to the more dynamic structure of Vorticism for The Cantos. Source: Internet
It was published when Pound had just begun his move toward Imagism ; his first use of the word Imagiste appears in his prefatory note to the volume. Source: Internet
Imagism Aldington's poetry was associated with the Imagist group, and his poetry forms almost one third of the Imagists' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes (1914). Source: Internet
Ingham (1999), 244–245 Imagism and Vorticism Dorothy Shakespear designed the Vorticism-inspired cover art for Pound's 1915 Ripostes Opinion varies about the nature of Pound's writing style. Source: Internet