Some Imagist Poets

A child’s wings are beaten to dust inside a match-box. In D. H. Lawrence’s “Childhood,” that tiny prison is a whole rainy town—and the speaker’s memory of growing up there.

Gathered in the early 1910s, Some Imagist Poets brings together Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, H. D., D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell, each turning to sharp images and uncluttered lines to catch what a moment can hold. Here, childhood’s grey streets and stifled longing sit beside a poplar trembling in the wind, a sea lily battered by weather, and water flecked with sunlight. The voices move from intimate recollection to nature, desire and unease, making the ordinary suddenly strange and vivid. What else might come into focus when a poem pares the world down to its essential image?

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