ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Though Ezra Pound is noted as the founder of imagism, the movement was rooted in ideas first developed by English philosopher and poet T. E. Hulme, who, as early as 1908, spoke of poetry based on an absolutely accurate presentation of its subject, with no excess verbiage.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements. Pound, along with Richard Aldington and other writers, founded the Imagist movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ezra Pound, in his 1913 Poetry magazine article ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’, defines what he means by image: “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instance of time”. It isn’t a clear-cut definition, but it’s a useful and interesting way of looking at poetry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pound promoted, and also occasionally helped to shape, the work of such widely different poets and novelists as William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot.