Some Imagist Poets

This anthology gathers the Imagist poets around a shared artistic creed: precision, fresh rhythm, freedom of subject, exact imagery, and poetic concentration. Its writers are presented not as a clique but as independent voices—Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell—united by a desire to offer their best unpublished work and to prove how much can be said in a few sharpened lines. Aldington's opening poems turn childhood pain, religious doubt, classical echoes, and stark natural detail into fierce, compressed protest. H. D. follows with crystalline lyrics in which sea plants, flowers, wind, and myth become emblems of resilience and sensual intensity. Fletcher's sequence moves from blue-toned solitude into the pressure of the modern city, where arches, trams, crowds, and machinery drive the self through exhilaration, confinement, and departure. Flint's quieter poems offer delicate reflections on trees, longing, illness, love, and bleak rural scenes, while Lawrence's "Ballad of Another Ophelia" deepens the emotional register with desire, fragility, and estrangement. Lowell's poems complete the collection with intense meditations on love, grief, spectacle, and the struggle to trap feeling in language. A final prose poem of bombardment and ruin brings war's violence into the heart of the city and the imagination. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.