imagist
Speech parts
1. imagist - Noun
2. imagist - Adjective
Meaning
imagist (plural imagists)
(art) A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism
imagist (comparative more imagist, superlative most imagist)
Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.
Imagist (plural Imagists)
Alternative form of imagist
Imagist (comparative more Imagist, superlative most Imagist)
Alternative form of imagist
Synonyms
Examples
The pleasure of their (the Imagist poetry is not the satisfaction of discovering little by little, but of seizing at a single blow, in the fullest vitality, the image, a fusion of reality in words.
Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision.
Gustav Mahler The ideas underlying Li Bai's poetry had a profound impact in shaping American Imagist and Modernist poetry through the 20th century.
Herbert Read however, noting that 'the Imagist Ezra Pound gave free verse its musical structure to an extent that parodoxically it was no longer free'.
Gibson (1988), p. 14 Crane's poetry is thought to have been a precursor to the Imagist movement, Hoffman, p. 63 and his short fiction has also influenced American literature.
His most anthologized poem is "The Red Wheelbarrow", an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles (see also " This Is Just To Say ").