Des Imagistes

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Des Imagistes was the first anthology of the Imagism movement. It was published in 1914 by the Poetry Bookshop in London. In America it was issued both in book form and simultaneously in the literary periodical The Glebe for February 1914 (issue #5)^[1].

Richard Aldington—whose work appears in the anthology, and along with H.D. was the first poet to be dubbed 'imagiste' by Ezra Pound—later wrote regarding the title of this anthology: "What Ezra thought that meant remains a mystery, unless the word "Anthologie" was assumed to precede it. Amy's anthologies were called Some Imagist Poets, so she may have supposed that Ezra thought "Des Imagistes" meant "Quelques Imagistes." But why a French title for a collection of poems by a bunch of young American and English authors? Search me. Ezra liked foreign titles."

[edit] Notes

1. ^  Suzanne Churchill 'Making Space for Others: A History of a Modernist Little Magazine' in Journal of Modern Literature, Volume: 22. Issue: 1. 1998, page 52

[edit] References

• Richard Aldington, Life for Life's Sake, The Viking Press, 1941 (p.137)