What is another word for imagist?

Pronunciation: [ɪmˈad͡ʒɪst] (IPA)

Imagist is a term that refers to an artist or writer who creates vivid and expressive images with minimal words or brushstrokes. Some synonyms for imagist include visual artist, minimalist writer, impressionist, symbolist, and expressionist. The term imagist is often associated with modernist poetry, and the poetry movement was founded by poets like Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). These poets focused on the use of vivid, direct language that conveyed precise and powerful images. As such, words like evocative, descriptive, precise, and vivid can also be used to describe the work of an imagist. Overall, imagists are talented artists and writers who use their skills to produce imaginative and impactful works of art.

What are the hypernyms for Imagist?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Imagist

He was a member of various groups-the imagist group, the Egoist group, the Sphericists, other groups piquantly named; versed in the new psychology, playing upon the word "pragmatism" as upon a violin.
"The Wrong Twin"
Harry Leon Wilson
But Crane was an imagist before our modern imagists were known.
"Men, Women, and Boats"
Stephen Crane
Miss Lowell many times, in admirable articles, stated the principles upon which Imagism is based, notably in the Preface to "Some imagist Poets" and in the Preface to the second series, in 1916. She also elaborated it much more fully in her volume, "Tendencies in Modern American Poetry", 1917, in the articles pertaining to the work of "H.D." and John Gould Fletcher.
"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed"
Amy Lowell

Famous quotes with Imagist

  • Imagism was a of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.
    Randall Jarrell

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