{"product_id":"imagist-poetry-penguin-modern-classics","title":"Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as ‘a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth … half-melted, lumpy’. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should ‘use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something … it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech’. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, ‘imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice’.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0141185708\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0141185708.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Peter Austin Jones|Richard Aldington|Skipwith Cannell|John Cournos|H.D.|John Gould Fletcher|F.S. Flint|Ford Madox Ford|T.E. Hulme|James Joyce|D.H. Lawrence|Amy Lowell|Marianne Moore|Ezra Pound|Edward Storer\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338019799101,"sku":"BVV.0141185708.G","price":14.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0141185708-0.jpg?v=1783904040","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/imagist-poetry-penguin-modern-classics","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}