The Imagist School And It’s Pioneers An-Approach To Amy Lowell's Poem: “Patterns

Abstract

There is much dispute and very little agreement about the definition of imagism as a literary school, its founder and its date of birth. No clear cut and exact phrases could give the accurate meaning and principles of this school which has been described as “the grammar school of modern poetry.”(1) Its role in modernizing the English poetry is indisputable, and nobody ever denies the fact that it exhilarated the poetic sensibility of the English and American poets of the first two decades of the twentieth century. The name of the founder of this school is not agreed upon. Yet, it is one of such names as Hulme, pound, Flint, Aldington and Amy Lowell, who all, each in a certain way, laid the basis and developed this school which “profoundly altered the course of English verse