Abstract:Reviewing Yeats's Responsibilities in Poetry for May 1914, Pound envisaged a reader who asked, 'Is Mr Yeats an Imagiste?' And Pound replied: 'No, Mr Yeats is a symbolist, but he has written des Images...Reviewing Yeats's Responsibilities in Poetry for May 1914, Pound envisaged a reader who asked, 'Is Mr Yeats an Imagiste?' And Pound replied: 'No, Mr Yeats is a symbolist, but he has written des Images as have many good poets before him....' Later in the review, after quoting the first five lines of 'The Magi', Pound remarked: 'Of course a passage like that, a passage of imagisme, may occur in a poem not otherwise imagiste, in the same way that a lyrical passage may occur in a narrative, or in some poem not otherwise lyrical.'1Read More
Publication Year: 1970
Publication Date: 1970-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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