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What derisive term did Ezra Pound coin for Amy Lowell's version of Imagism after she assumed leadership of the movement?
Answer
Amygism
Pound mockingly labeled Lowell's populist, less strict approach to Imagism 'Amygism,' distinguishing it from his own stricter conception of the movement.
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Imagist poets demanded one image per poem with no explanation, yet Amy Lowell—the movement's champion—wrote flowery, emotional verses violating her own manifesto.
Other options people guess
- Loweller-ism
- Neo-Imagism
- Imagistic Romanticism
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- poetry
- imagism
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- literary-history
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