Although it was a short-lived literary movement, imagism left a long legacy on poetry. Between 1914 and 1917, four annual anthologies of imagist poems appeared, beginning with Des Imagistes, edited by the movement’s founder, Ezra Pound.
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A Short Analysis of William Carlos Williams’ ‘This Is Just to Say’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘This Is Just to Say’, a 1934 poem written by the American modernist poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), offers itself to the reader as a note left by the poet to his wife. Is this all ‘This Is Just to Say’ is: a note […]
A Summary and Analysis of Wallace Stevens’ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ appeared in Harmonium (1923), the first poetry collection of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens, although it had originally been published in an American magazine, Others, in 1917. At once a poem and a series of thirteen […]
A Short Analysis of D. H. Lawrence’s ‘Autumn Rain’
‘Autumn Rain’ is not one of D. H. Lawrence’s most famous poems. He wrote a great deal of poetry, and whilst some of it falls short of the greatness we associate with his novels and short stories, ‘Autumn Rain’ shows his delicate control of poetic syntax and his inventiveness with […]
‘The Walls Do Not Fall’: H. D.’s Trilogy, Modernism, and War
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reads a wide-ranging poem about the Second World War When H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) and her then-husband Richard Aldington walked into a bomb-damaged house during the First World War, Aldington found an abandoned volume of Robert Browning’s poetry and […]