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You say in part:

Pound deserves great
> credit for his part in the Imagist movement, but he was not the most
> accomplished practitioner

Who was?  I am not trying to assert by this that Pound was but am merely
curious.

There was Imagism and Amygism.  Amygism emphasized the image (little i) and
Imagism emphacized the Image (big I).  Amygism was concerned with the
"thing", the image,  that was being directly represented in the poem whereas
Imagism was concerned with the dynamic of a shift to a non-verbal language
and the resultant triggering of intellectual and emotional complexes (see
Bernard Hart, "The Psychology of Insanity" chapter five)  The most succinct
definition by Pound of the "Image" is on page 4 of "Literary Essays of Ezra
Pound" edited by T. S. Eliot; "An 'Image' is that which presents an
intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.   I use the term
'complex' rather in the technical sense employed by the newer psychologists,
such as Hart, though we might not agree absolutely in our
application.".(Ezra Pound)

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM