Imagism

thumb|The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, [[Des Imagistes, published in 1914.]] Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favoured precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctr