Imagist

English

Noun

Imagist (plural Imagists)

1. Alternative form of imagist
   • 2001, Georgina Taylor, H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers, page 81:

     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.

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

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

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

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

Adjective

Imagist (comparative more Imagist, superlative most Imagist)

1. Alternative form of imagist
   • 1974, Imagist Realism:

     When, however, an Imagist Realist Iike Guy Johnson demonstrates the ability to fuse images of of seeming discrepancy, an openness of form is apparent.

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

     Its style was more Imagist than anything else, however.

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

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

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

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