Some Imagist Poets

This striking anthology gathers early Imagist poetry by Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell, distilling war, love, loss, nature, myth, and modern unease into vivid, concentrated lyric moments. The poems move from battlefield anxiety and private grief to public memorial, as in "Lincoln," where Abraham Lincoln emerges as a solitary figure of patience, sacrifice, and moral burden. Elsewhere, intimate exchanges, sensual landscapes, and visionary inner journeys confront separation, selfhood, and rebirth, most powerfully in the long sequence "Terra Nuova," which passes through violence and exhaustion toward a startling recognition of an "Unknown" reality. Across the collection, nature is both refuge and threat: moonlight, dawn, rivers, gardens, and autumn fields shimmer with beauty while carrying undercurrents of dread, longing, and mortality. H. D.'s mythic poems, including "Pygmalion" and "Eurydice," turn classical figures into fierce meditations on art, desire, and transformation. With spare, luminous language and exquisite visual precision, these poems reveal beauty as fragile, hard-won, and shadowed by darkness. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.