imagist

plural imagists · alternative Imagist

1. artA follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism

   Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.

   1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader

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   D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.

   1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162

comparative more imagist · superlative most imagist · alternative Imagist

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.

   Altieri argues that 'Williams still locates affect in the rendering of a scene', which seems true of Williams's shorter, more imagist poems.

   2016, Mark Sandy, Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century, page 48

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   D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.

   1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162

   Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.

   2008, Winston Fletcher, Powers of Persuasion

plural Imagists

1. alternativeAlternative form of imagist.

   Assessments of H.D.'s early poetry have tended to concentrate on her purely as an Imagist.

   2002, Richard Aldington, An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington

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   While in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce) or had moved on to other projects (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) without being succeeded by a second generation, for these women Imagism opened up more long-term possibilities.

   2001, Georgina Taylor, H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers, page 81

   The Imagists examined the human perceptual habituation and the force of images on the mind.

   2012, Anja Rozowski, Two Imagists Encounter the Classical Period, page 5

comparative more Imagist · superlative most Imagist

1. alternativeAlternative form of imagist.

   Its style was more Imagist than anything else, however.

   1978, Bernard I. Duffey, Poetry in America, page 207

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   It may be that I have asked the same Imagist abilities of my readers as the poets I have considered asked of theirs.

   1999, Brian Trehearne, The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition, page 308

   Perhaps for this reason the Imagist poets soon went off on their different – if perhaps parallel — paths.

   2014, Malcolm Peet, David Robinson, Leading Questions, page 86