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Imagist, n. (and a.)|ˈɪmɪdʒɪst|
Also imagist and in Fr. form Imagiste.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. An adherent of Imagism (sense 1). Also attrib. or as adj.
1912E. Pound Let. Aug. (1971) 10 I send you all that I have on my desk—an over-elaborate post-Browning ‘Imagiste’ affair and a note on the Whistler exhibit. Ibid. Oct. (1971) 11 I've had luck again, and am sending you some modern stuff by an American, I say modern, for it is in the laconic speech of the Imagistes, even if the subject is classic. 1913[see Imagism 1]. 1914R. Aldington in Egoist 1 June 201/1 (title) Modern poetry and the Imagists. Ibid. 202/1 Why do we call ourselves ‘Imagists’?.. I think it is a very good and descriptive title... Let me say from memory what I, as an Imagist, consider the fundamental doctrines of the group... We do not say ‘O how I admire that exquisite, that beautiful..woman’..but we present that woman, we make an ‘Image’ of her, we make the scene convey the emotion. 1915Egoist 1 May 70/2 One of the first ‘Imagist’ poems by T. E. Hulme. 1919Hist. Amer. Lit. II. 266 Isle of la Belle Rivière..was written in what is now called imagist verse, at the age of thirty. 1922Edin. Rev. July 101 In much of the work of the imagists..we find a more or less conscious, and more or less effective yielding to that influence. 1931[see ground n. 11 b]. 1931[see Imagism 1]. 1960Auden Homage to Clio 42 No ‘imagist’ poem can be more than a few words long. 1970English Studies LI. 269 This period also saw the birth and death of other more obviously revolutionary groups such as the Vorticists, Imagists, [etc.].
transf.1962Times 3 May 18/4 Two of the most rip-roaring imagists of European action-painting. 1962Listener 27 Sept. 484/2 The Pirandellists, the Symbolists, the Kafkarians, the Imagists.
2. Philos. An adherent of imagism (sense 2). Also attrib. or as adj.
1948Mind LVII. 481 He [sc. Ewing] backs it up with his criticisms of Behaviourist accounts of Belief and Verbalist and Imagist accounts of Thinking. 1953H. H. Price Thinking & Experience viii. 239 The Imagist does not deny that words have meaning, but he holds that they have it only indirectly, as substitutes for images. Ibid. 241 The starting point of the Imagist theory..is private thinking, and private thinking of the ‘free’ symbol-using kind. 1972Science 12 May 630/2 Thus he can adopt an imagist theory of meaning after carefully listing several objections to it which are never answered.
Hence imaˈgistic a., of or pertaining to Imagism (both senses); imaˈgistically adv.
1916E. Pound Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 76 Some of the things [sc. poems] seem to me ‘just imagistic’, neither better nor worse than a lot of other imagistic stuff that gets into print. 1921H. Crane Let. 22 July (1965) 63 In an imagistic way [this] singularly seems to agree with the substance of your opinion. 1940Kenyon Rev. 277 The words ‘fog’ and ‘bloody’..must be taken not only..imagistically but symbolically. 1944Mind LIII. 216 Imagistic, literary, associative, or other kinds of meaning. 1963Listener 14 Feb. 300/3 This imagistic language is carried to its logical conclusion in the controversial ending to the film. 1969Jrnl. Eng. & Gmc. Philol. LXVIII. 219 The reason is imagistically indicated in the immediately preceding lines. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Nov. 1348/3 He works for the most part imagistically, spacing small, autonomous chunks of perception around a page, resolutely subduing ‘theme’ to the eye-stopping images which compose it. |