ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Imagism was a sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery with sharp language. The essential idea was to re-create the physical experience of an object through words. As with all of Modernism, Imagism implicitly rejected Victorian poetry, which tended toward narrative.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imagist, any of a group of American and English poets whose poetic program was formulated about 1912 by Ezra Pound-in conjunction with fellow poets Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Richard Aldington, and F.S. Flint-and was inspired by the critical views of T.E.

Detailed explanation-3: -An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early twentieth century poets and authors Amy Lowell, T.S. Eliot, F.S. Flint, Hilda Doolittle, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, John Gould Fletcher, and Ford Madox Ford are all associated with the Imagist movement.

Detailed explanation-5: -Imagism was born in England and America in the early twentieth century. A reactionary movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry, imagism emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images.