Pound's greatest achievement during the London years was his engineering of the Imagist movement, an avant-garde push for a poetry of intense precision and condensation, but in most of the Imagist poems Pound writes not of the feeling of camaraderie within that avant-garde movement but about the shallowness of village life and the longing for flesh-shrouded companions.
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Pound's greatest achievement during the London years was his engineering of the Imagist movement, an avant-garde push for a poetry of intense precision and condensation, but in most of the Imagist poems Pound writes not of the feeling of camaraderie within that avant-garde movement but about the shallowness of village life and the longing for flesh-shrouded companions. ...