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Which poet became the leading champion of the Imagist movement despite writing lush, emotional verses that broke the movement's own rules?
Answer
Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell took over leadership of Imagism after Ezra Pound moved on, but her own poetry was often ornate and emotionally expressive, contradicting the movement's demand for spare, unadorned imagery.
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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
- Ezra Pound
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- T.E. Hulme
Topics
- poetry
- imagism
- literary-movements
- 20th-century
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