Editing Imagism (section)

==''Some Imagist Poets''==
[[File:Houghton MS Lowell 62 (5) - Bachrach.jpg|thumb|The American Imagist [[Amy Lowell]], who edited later volumes of ''Some Imagist Poets''; in 1925, Lowell was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]].<ref>Bradshaw; Munich (2002), p. xvii</ref>]]
An article on the history of Imagism was written by Flint and published in ''The Egoist'' in May 1915. Pound disagreed with Flint's interpretation of events and the goals of the group, causing the two to cease contact with each other.<ref>Pondrom (1969), pp. 557–586</ref> Flint emphasised the contribution of the Eiffel Tower poets, especially [[Edward Storer]]. Pound, who believed that the "Hellenic hardness" that he saw as the distinguishing quality of the poems of H.D. and Aldington was likely to be diluted by the "custard" of Storer, was to play no further direct role in the history of the Imagists. He went on to co-found the [[Vorticists]] with his friend, the painter and writer [[Wyndham Lewis]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://academic.oup.com/ywes/article-abstract/72/1/361/1637738 |title=The Twentieth Century |last1=Page |volume=72 |issue=1 |first1=A. |last2=Cowley |first2=J. |date=1993 |journal=The Year's Work in English Studies |pages=361–421 |doi=10.1093/ywes/72.1.361 |access-date=July 17, 2018 |last3=Daly |first3=M. |last4=Vice |first4=S. |last5=Watkins |first5=S. |last6=Morgan |first6=L. |last7=Sillars |first7=S. |last8=Poster |first8=J. |last9=Griffiths |first9=T.}}<!--this reference is an obvious guess based on the original "Cowley et al (1993). Years Work English Studies, pp. 452–521"; pages don't match--></ref>

Around this time, the American Imagist Amy Lowell moved to London, determined to promote her own work and that of the other Imagist poets. Lowell was a wealthy heiress from [[Boston]], whose brother [[Abbott Lawrence Lowell]] was President of [[Harvard University]] from 1909 to 1933.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history-presidency/abbott-lawrence-lowell |title = A(bbott) Lawrence Lowell |website = Harvard University |access-date = July 16, 2018 |archive-date = July 17, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180717070703/https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history-presidency/abbott-lawrence-lowell |url-status = dead }}</ref> She was an enthusiastic champion of literary experiment who was willing to use her money to publish the group. Lowell was determined to change the method of selection from Pound's autocratic editorial attitude to a more democratic manner.<ref>Preface to ''Some Imagist Poets'' (1915). Reprinted in Kolocotroni et al (1998), p. 268</ref> The outcome was a series of Imagist anthologies under the title ''Some Imagist Poets''. The first of these appeared in 1915, planned and assembled mainly by H.D. and Aldington. Two further issues, both edited by Lowell, were published in 1916 and 1917. These three volumes featured most of the original poets, plus the American [[John Gould Fletcher]],<ref>Hughes, Glenn (1931). ''Imagism & The Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry''. Stanford University Press.</ref> but not Pound, who had tried to persuade Lowell to drop the Imagist name from her publications and who sardonically dubbed this phase of Imagism "Amygism".<ref>Moody (2007), p. 224</ref>

Lowell persuaded [[D. H. Lawrence]] to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes,<ref>Lawrence (1979), p. 394</ref> making him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist. [[Marianne Moore]] also became associated with the group during this period.<ref>Geiger (1956), pp. 140, 145</ref> With [[World War I]] as a backdrop, the times were not easy for ''[[avant-garde]]'' literary movements (Aldington, for example, spent much of the war at the front), and the 1917 anthology effectively marked the end of the Imagists as a movement.<ref>Moody (2007), pp. 224–225</ref>