Dirk

No, on the contrary.

Imagism is a descriptive term.  If you chose not to attach it to Pound that
is your choice.  The reasons you have given are adequate to justify your
choice.

In fact, Pound is not often called an Imagist poet.  He is usually referred
to as a poet who wrote Imagism.  This emphasis would appear to be the same
as yours.

Most of the verse Pound wrote was not Imagist.  He would have been the first
to maintain that true Imagism is difficult to come by.

BTW:  Vorticism is not generally thought of as a further development of
Imagism.  The confusion probably comes because it is a development in
Pound's thinking.  Vorticism is the extension of Imagism to the other arts.
The Vortex for poetry is still the Image.  The Vortex for sculpture is
expressed in the relation of angles and planes.  The essential
characteristic of the Vortex is the same as the Image; "An 'Image' is that
which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time".
(for an excellent discussion of Vorticism see page 36 of  Hugh Witemeyer's
"The Poetry of Ezra Pound: Forms and Renewal, 1908-1920")

A question then; What is the Vortex for prose?

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM