The Imagist Movement In America: History And Development

Author

Helen Christie Malcolm, Kansas State Teachers College of Hays

Department

English

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Abstract

The commercial age in America, coupled with the World war, has had no less influence in the field of poetic values than in the field of business. In the following pages I have attempted to show that the outlook of modern poetry is both natural and purposeful as a result of its environment and background; that, though unstable and variable at the present, it is gradually attaining through various short-lived movements, a degree of finish and crystallization; and that the entire outlook is a presagement, a finger pointing in the direction of a fuller, richer cultural life that shall come to birth in America.

Keywords

Literary criticism, Walt Whitman, Edwin Markham, Amy Lowell, free-verse poetry, John Gould Fletcher

Advisor

Dr. Rob Roy MacGregor

Date of Award

Spring 1930

Document Type

Thesis

DOI

10.58809/BTJO7397

Recommended Citation

Malcolm, Helen Christie, "The Imagist Movement In America: History And Development" (1930). Master's Theses. 198.
DOI: 10.58809/BTJO7397
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/198

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