Imagist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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."
- 2 Alternative form of imagist. alt-of, alternative
"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."
- 1 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."
- 2 Alternative form of imagist. alt-of, alternative
"Its style was more Imagist than anything else, however."
Example
More examples"Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy."
Etymology
From image + -ist.
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