Get your IMAGISTES here

Thanks to the MIT Comparative Media Studies graduate class of 2010 and Nick Montfort, it is now possible to read Ezra Pound's anthology Des Imagistes (1912) on-line. Enjoy!

http://www.desimagistes.com/about.html

Other links:

Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste," Poetry (March 1913).

Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro," Poetry (April 1913).

Kudos to Carol Rumens and Paul Laurence Dunbar

Thank you Carol Rumens for an excellent synopsis of Paul Laurence Dunbar, in your "Poem of the Week" column for the Guardian (September 28, 2009). Dunbar's talent is, as you put it, "bilingual," and both of his languages should be appreciated by readers. It seems to me that today we should be particularly grateful for the dialect poems, because they give testimony to the that era when reading and writing were not skills allowed to slaves. Dunbar's voice and humor influenced Langston Hughes. Both poets spent some important early days in Chicago, but never met, because Dunbar died so young, in 1906.

War Poetry Set to Music

A concert of First World War Poetry organized by the Wilfred Owen Association is to be held at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London, on Saturday April 25, 2009. The program includes musical settings by George Butterworth, John Ireland, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Benjamin Britten, and others.

Program and booking form from the War Poets Association (www.warpoets.org).

Paul Mariani's Hopkins

Paul Mariani's Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Life (Viking, 2008) was reviewed by Blake Bailey in the New York Times (December 12, 2008).

Modernism: timeline and links

1909

F.T. Marinetti, "The Manifesto of Surrealism" from the Guardian (November 13, 2008).

1910

E.M. Forster, Howard's End.

1911

Rupert Brooke, Poems.

Ford Maddox Ford, The Critical Attitude, a series of articles published in The English Review in 1908-9, issued as book.

1912

Ezra Pound, Ripostes.

Poetry, a magazine of Verse founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago.

1913

Ezra Pound, "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste," Poetry, A Magzine of Verse (March 1913).

Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro" in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse (April 1913).

Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics, tr. T.E. Hulme (London: MacMillan, 1913).

Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery.

1914

F.T. Marinetti, "A Futurist Manifesto," New Age 15 (May 7, 1914).

T.S. Eliot, "Prufrock" published in Poetry.

Mina Loy, "Feminist Manifesto."

Ezra Pound (ed.), Des Imagistes; "Wyndham Lewis," Egoist 1 (June 15, 1914); "Vortex," Blast 1 (June 1914); "Vorticism," Fortnightly Review XCVI (1914). Pound joins Yeats on his winter retreats from London.

Wyndham Lewis, "The Melodrama of Modernity" and "Our Vortex," Blast 1 (June 1914).

Richard Aldington, "Free Verse in England," Egoist.

James Joyce, Dubliners.

1915

Amy Lowell (ed.) Some Imagist Poets.

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow.

1916

W.B. Yeats, "Easter 1916."

1917

T.S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations.

Ivor Gurney, Severn and Somme.

Isaac Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches."

1918

Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack.

1919

Ivor Gurney, "The Silent One."

T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

Walter Gropius, "Manifest to the Bauhaus."

1920

T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (London: Methuen).

Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberly.

W.B. Yeats, Michael Robertes and the Dancer.

1921

1922

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.

James Joyce, Ulysses.

A.E. Housman, Last Poems.

1923

William Carlos Williams, Spring and All.

1924

Ford Maddox Ford, Some Do Not (first volume of Parade's End trilogy).

1925

F.S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway.

1926

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues.

Ezra Pound, Personae.

1927

Robert Graves and Laura Riding, A Survey of Modernist Poetry.

1928

W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium."

1929

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury.

Links

"A Brief Guide to Imagism" from www.poets.org.

"A Brief Guide to Modernism" from www.poets.org.

The War Poets

The Guardian has released a series of photo portraits called "Poets of the First World War" (November 10, 2008) and invites readers to take a look at The First World War Poetry Digital Archive.  Carol Rumens's poem of the week is "In the Trenches" by Isaac Rosenberg (November 10, 2008).  The Telegraph ran an article on Vera Brittain:  "Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After, by Vera Brittain," (November 4, 2008).

For the historians:  It is possible to use the British National Archives and The Cabinet Papers (1915-1978).