ricks:

I  actually don't believe in imagism, so to an answer to your question
would be similar to answering questions about (as the Tibetan Lamas use
for an example) a rabbit with horns.

ricks wrote:

>Brennen
>
>You still haven't answered my question.  Who was a better Imagist than
>Pound?  Not Amygist; Imagist.
>
>We've had one suggestion.  The obvious one; H.D.
>
>Many more candidates both pre and post "Des Imagistes" exist.  Was Dante
>ever an Imagist?  Was Shakespeare? How about the objectivist, Robert
>Creeley?  What about some of Richard Wright's Haiku?  Li Po?
>
>Some of Pound's best Imagism is buried in other poems.  Read the last two
>lines of "Provincia Deserta".  The first 3 lines of section 11 of "Homage to
>Sextus Propertius" is an Imagist Haiku.  Others abound through-out
>"Personae" and hunting "The Cantos" for Imagist sub-poems is very rewarding.
>
>These are not questions from an academic.  I am not an academic.  I am just
>an old codger trying to finally begin to learn a little art and I truly want
>to know your opinion.
>
>Rick Seddon
>McIntosh, NM
>
>
>

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