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"I began to write what I called rhythms ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing free verse or Vers libre."
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Richard AldingtonWhy do we call ourselves Imagists. Well why not? Well I think it is a — Richard Aldington
"Why do we call ourselves Imagists. Well why not? Well I think it is a very good and descriptive title and it serves to enunciate some of the principles we mos firmly believe in... Direct treatment of the subject... as few adjectives as possible... a hardness, as of cut stone... individuality of rhythm..."
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Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career produced "143 separate titles, including poetry, literary criticism, fiction, essays, anthologies, biographies, translations, and introductions. In addition, he published reviews of over 1,350 separate books, published hundreds of other articles, and wrote an immense quan
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"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when ones whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."
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"I dream of silent verses where the rhyme Glides noiseless as an oar."
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