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1886–1950 United States
John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886 – May 10, 1950) was an Imagist poet, author and authority on modern painting.
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Poetry merely descriptive of nature, however vivid, no longer seems enough for me, there has to be added to it, the human judgement, the human evaluation.
It is America's opportunity to lay the foundations for a new flowering of English verse, and to lay them as broad as they are strong.
It is time to create something new. It is time to strip poetry of meaningless tatters of form, and to clothe her in new, suitable garments.
Imagism was not Symbolism, but it proceeds from it
To begin with, the basis of English poetry is rhythm, or, as some would prefer to call it, cadence. This rhythm is obtained by mingling stressed and unstressed syllables.
I should strive (on reading a book of poetry) to evoke the a soul out of this piece of inanimate matter,a something characteristic and structural inherent in this organic form which is friendly to me and responds to my mood.