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A movement in Anglo-American poetry which
flourished 1912-14 and affected much US and
British poetry and critical thinking
thereafter. A central figure was Ezra Pound,
who asserted the principles of free verse,
hard imagery, and poetic impersonality. Pound
encouraged Hilda Doolittle to sign her verse
H D Imagiste and in 1914 edited the Des
Imagistes anthology. Poets subsequently
influenced by this movement include T S
Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace
Stevens, and Marianne Moore. Imagism
established modernism in English-language
verse.