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n. - A movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality.

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  • We were imagism, cubism, the conventicles and sects respected now by credulous universities.
  • Meanwhile, the other top two books are both by I think white poets -- one is overtly "political poetry" and the other is lyrical imagism.
  • It can be a particularly valuable introduction to Wordsworth, whose directness of statement is better judged by the standards of song lyrics than of imagism.
  • I just finished a horrific literature class about the use of minimalism in post modern writing where my teacher degraded me in the most vitriolic manner because my style is so...
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