Editing Imagism (section)

==''Des Imagistes''==
[[File:(Edward Godfree) Richard Aldington by Howard Coster 10 x 8 inch film negative, 1931.jpg|thumb|[[Richard Aldington]] in 1931]]
Determined to promote the work of the Imagists, and particularly of Aldington and H.D., Pound decided to publish an anthology under the title ''[[Des Imagistes]]''. It was first published in [[Alfred Kreymborg]]'s little magazine ''[[The Glebe (literary magazine)|The Glebe]]'' and was later published in 1914 by [[Albert Boni|Albert]] and Charles Boni in New York and by [[Harold Monro]] at the [[Poetry Bookshop]] in London.  It became one of the most important and influential English-language collections of modernist verse.<ref>Edgerly Firchow, Peter; Evelyn Scherabon Firchow; Bernfried Nugel (2002). ''Reluctant Modernists: Aldous Huxley and Some Contemporaries''. Transaction Books, p. 32.</ref> Included in the thirty-seven poems were ten poems by Aldington, seven by H.D., and six by Pound. The book also included work by Flint, [[Skipwith Cannell]], [[Amy Lowell]], [[William Carlos Williams]], [[James Joyce]], [[Ford Madox Ford]], [[Allen Upward]] and [[John Cournos]].<ref>Thacker (2018), pp. 5–6</ref><ref>Pound (1914), pp. 5–6</ref>

Pound's editorial choices were based on what he saw as the degree of sympathy that the writers displayed with Imagist precepts, rather than active participation in a group. Williams, based in the United States, had not participated in any of the discussions of the Eiffel Tower group. However, he and Pound had long been corresponding on the question of the renewal of poetry along similar lines. Ford was included at least partly because of his strong influence on Pound, as the younger poet made the transition from his earlier, [[Pre-Raphaelite]]-influenced style towards a harder, more modern way of writing. The anthology included the poem ''I Hear an Army'' by James Joyce, which was sent to Pound by W. B. Yeats.<ref>Ellmann (1959), p. 350</ref>