imagist
imagist noun: a follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism.
Noun (1)
imagist (plural imagists)
- A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism
- Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader
- D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162
Adjective (1)
imagist (comparative more imagist, superlative most imagist)
- Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.
- D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162
- Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.2008, Winston Fletcher, Powers of Persuasion
Noun (2) capitalized: Imagist
Imagist (plural Imagists)
- Alternative form of imagist.
- While in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce) or had moved on to other projects (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) without being succeeded by a second generation, for these women Imagism opened up more long-term possibilities.2001, Georgina Taylor, H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers, page 81
- Assessments of H.D.'s early poetry have tended to concentrate on her purely as an Imagist.2002, Richard Aldington, An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington
Adjective (2) capitalized: Imagist
Imagist (comparative more Imagist, superlative most Imagist)
- Alternative form of imagist.
- Its style was more Imagist than anything else, however.1978, Bernard I. Duffey, Poetry in America, page 207
- It may be that I have asked the same Imagist abilities of my readers as the poets I have considered asked of theirs.1999, Brian Trehearne, The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition, page 308
Forms of imagist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | imagists |
| alternative form | Imagist |
| plural | Imagists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more imagist |
| superlative | most imagist |
| comparative | more Imagist |
| superlative | most Imagist |
Origin of imagist
From image + -ist.
Words formed from imagist
Questions about imagist
- What does imagist mean?
- Imagist means a follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism.
- What part of speech is imagist?
- Imagist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of imagist?
- The plural of imagist is imagists.
Words near imagist in the dictionary
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