The Imagist Amalgams -A Textual Mapping of Richard Aldington's Poems in Des Imagistes 1914
The Imagist Amalgams -A Textual Mapping of Richard Aldington's Poems in Des Imagistes 1914

Summary/Abstract: The poems written by the Imagists during the mutual poetic experinent originally labelled by Pound Imagisme, were included in four major anthologies. Three of them were published by Amy Lowell between the years 1915- 1917 and had the identical title Some Imagist Poets. The first anthology was brought out by Ezra Pound in 1914 and bore the French title Des Imagistes. Their content was selected differently. Pound, as was only to be expected, decided everything by him; self. He cut, edited and gathered the poems himself, inviting only the pets he deemed worthy of the privilege of being dubbed Imagists. By contrast, Amy Lowell's method was fully democratic as she "suggested that each poet be given equal space in which his or her own selection of poems would appear."

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