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Imagism

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Noun

1. imagism

a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Imagism

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noun
a poetic movement in England and America between 1912 and 1917, initiated chiefly by Ezra Pound, advocating the use of ordinary speech and the precise presentation of images

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Imagism

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noun
a movement in modern poetry (c. 1909-17), characterized by the use of precise, concrete images, free verse, and suggestion rather than complete statement

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Imagism

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n.
A literary movement launched by British and American poets in the early 1900s that advocated the use of free verse, common speech patterns, and clear concrete images as a reaction to Victorian sentimentalism.

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