Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology

Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology

In March, 1914, a volume appeared entitled "Des Imagistes." It was a collection of the work of various young poets, presented together as a school. This school has been widely discussed by those interested in new movements in the arts, and has already become a household word. Differences of taste and judgment, however, have arisen among the contributors to that book; growing tendencies are forcing them along different paths. Those of us whose work appears in this volume have therefore decided to publish our collection under a new title, and we have been joined by two or three poets who did not contribute to the first volume, our wider scope making this possible. In this new book we have followed a slightly different arrangement to that of the former Anthology. Instead of an arbitrary selection by an editor, each poet has been permitted to represent himself by the work he considers his best, the only stipulation being that it should not yet have appeared in book form. A sort of informal committeeconsisting of more than half the authors here representedhave arranged the book and decided what [Pg vi]should be printed and what omitted, but, as a general rule, the poets have been allowed absolute freedom in this direction, limitations of space only being imposed upon them. Also, to avoid any appearance of precedence, they have been put in alphabetical order. As it has been suggested that much of the misunderstanding of the former volume was due to the fact that we did not explain ourselves in a preface, we have thought it wise to tell the public what our aims are, and why we are banded together between one set of covers. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 30276
Author: Aldington, Richard
Release Date: Oct 17, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950, Flint, F. S. (Frank Stewart), 1885-1960, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961, Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930, Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925