The Poundian Image and the Romantic Symbol
Critics since the 1960s have largely rejected Frank Kermode's view that Ezra Pound conceived Imagism as an anti-discursive mode of verbal pictoralism. Pound himself emphatically dissociated Imagism from Symbolism, which he regarded as cultivating vague semantic associations, and it is true tha...
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Fridericiana University Press
2015
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| Summary: | Critics since the 1960s have largely rejected Frank Kermode's view that Ezra Pound conceived Imagism as an anti-discursive mode of verbal pictoralism. Pound himself emphatically dissociated Imagism from Symbolism, which he regarded as cultivating vague semantic associations, and it is true that his poems of the early 1910s are concerned more with subjective juxtapositions of images than with their external referents |
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