Imagism books

Imagism books to start from. Open one to see books like it, or tell BookSense what you loved for four picks made for you.

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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
Amy Lowell
A collection showing Lowell's Imagist work, with imagery drawn from everyday and exotic scenes.
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Sea Garden
H. D.
Short lyrics of sea, rock and flower with a spare, classical clarity that defined her early style.
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Cathay
Ezra Pound
Versions of Chinese poems that brought the Imagist ideal of concrete, unexplained images into English.
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Images
Richard Aldington
Short poems of single scenes and moods, among the most typical Imagist collections.
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Goblins and Pagodas
John Gould Fletcher
Poems combining Imagist compression with color and Asian and Western subjects.
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