Anthologies

Aldington, Richard, ed. Imagist Anthology, 1930. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930, 154 p.

Contains poems by Pound, Lowell, Flint, Hulme, and others associated with the Imagist movement.

Jones, Peter, ed. Imagist Poetry. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, 188 p.

Includes an introduction outlining the development of Imagism.

Pratt, William, ed. The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature. New York: Dutton, 1963, 128 p.

Includes an introduction surveying the major writers and themes of the Imagist movement.

Secondary Sources

Aldington, Richard. "Chapter IX." In Life for Life's Sake: A Book of Reminiscences, pp. 133-59. New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

Personal recollection of the Imagist movement by one of the group's founding members.

Clements, Patricia. "The Imagists." In Baudelaire & The English Tradition, pp. 260-99. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Recounts the development of Imagism in theory and practice, as a self-consciously modern and at times self-contradictory movement spawned from the innovations of the French Symbolists, particularly Charles Baudelaire.

Dembo, L. S. "H.D. Imagiste and Her Octopus Intelligence." In H.D. Woman and Poet, edited by Michael King, pp. 209-25. Orono: University of Maine at Orono, 1986.

Reveals indications of H.D.'s transcendence of Ezra Pound's early influence in her autobiographical Her and in her novel Hermione.

Durrell, Lawrence. "Georgians and Imagists." In A Key to Modern British Poetry, pp. 119-42. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952.

Includes a survey of the Imagist movement which notes its influences and early theoreticians. Durrell sees Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot as the major figures to arise from the movement and separates their work from that of the "lesser" Imagists, whose poetry he finds marred by "English sentimentality."

Gage, John T. In the Arresting Eye: The Rhetoric of Imagism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981, 186 p.

Attempts to liberate Imagist poetry from "the inadequacies of Imagist theory," which may be said to hamper an aesthetic appreciation of these works.

Gould, Jean. Amy: The World of Amy Lowell and the Imagist Movement. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975, 372 p.

Biography of Lowell that focuses on her dedication to the development of Imagism.

Gross, Harvey. "Imagism and Visual Prosody." In Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell, pp. 100-29. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964.

Considers the theory and verse of the Imagists T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and H.D. as well as the influence of these on the poetic form of such poets as Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and E. E. Cummings.

Guimond, James. "After Imagism." Ohio Review 15, No. 1 (Fall 1973): 5-28.

Studies "the cultural significance of one particularly American branch of the Imagist movement—the kind of Imagism, exemplified in William Carlos Williams' 'red wheelbarrow' poem, which is characterized by its extremely stark presentation of commonplace objects."

Harmer, J. B. Victory in Limbo: Imagism 1908-1917. London: Secker & Warburg, 1975, 238 p.

Describes Imagism as "the one literary movement in Britain and America that reflected the energies of modernism" otherwise neglected in the arts of these two nations.

Hasbany, Richard. "The Shock of Vision: An Imagist Reading of In Our Time." In Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Welshimer Wagner, pp. 224-40. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1974.

Investigates the possible influence of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound on Hemingway's early collection of short stories In Our Time.

Healey, Claire. "Some Imagist Essays: Amy Lowell." The New England Quarterly 43, No. 1 (March 1970): 134-38.

Details Lowell's predominance over the Imagist movement during the period from 1913 to 1917.

Hughes, Glenn. Imagism & the Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1931, 283 p.

History of the Imagist movement that places particular emphasis on seven key members of the group: Richard Aldington, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell, and Ezra Pound.

Kenner, Hugh. "Imagism." In The Pound Era, pp. 173-91. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Probes Ezra Pound's sway over the nascent Imagist movement in 1912.

Moody, A. D. "H.D., Imagiste: An Elemental Mind." Agenda 25, Nos. 3-4 (Autumn/Winter 1987-88): 77-96.

Analyzes H.D.'s concept of Imagism as it departs from theories originally articulated by Ezra Pound.

Pondrom, Cyrena N., ed. "Selected Letters from H.D. to F. S. Flint: A Commentary on the Imagist Period." Contemporary Literature 10, No. 4 (Autumn 1969): 557-86.

Collection of letters in which H.D. "clarifies our view of the inner workings of the coterie of Imagism and the ways those associated with it sought to surmount the disruption of the First World War."

Pratt, William, and Robert Richardson, eds. Homage to Imagism. New York: AMS Press, 1992, 169 p.

Includes an introduction on the enduring significance of Imagism by Pratt, reprints of Imagist poems, and essays on D.H. Lawrence, H. D., and others associated with the movement by various contributors.

Schuchard, Ronald. '"As Regarding Rhythm': Yeats and the Imagists." Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 2 (1984): 209-26.

Highlights the neglected importance of W. B. Yeats's concern with poetic rhythm on the work of Ezra Pound in the early formative years of the Imagist movement.

Spender, Stephen. "The Seminal Image." In The Struggle of the Modern, pp. 110-15. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Briefly summarizes the "essential principles of the famous Imagist manifesto" and the subsequent influence of this work on modern poetry.

Tanner, Tony. "Transcendentalism and Imagism." In The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature, pp. 87-93. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Compares the aesthetic approaches of Transcendentalism and Imagism in order to arrive at a definition of the latter.

Thacker, Andrew. "Imagist Travels in Modernist Space." Textual Practice 7, No. 2 (Summer 1993): 224-46.

Offers readings of Imagist poems about transportation in a postmodern idiom. Thacker observes how many reveal "sites of struggle over gender and sexuality" in the contemporary urban environment.