Dirk

I will agree with you about the self-promotion and the use of Imagism to do
that.  I also think that Imagism is a technique that Pound defined and then
used.  He did not claim to have invented it.  It would be closer to say that
he discovered it.  Imagism is essential to the Ideogramic method.

Canto 4

Ply over ply, thin glitter of water;
Brook film bearing white petals,
The pine at Takasago
                 grows with the pine of Ise!
The water whirls up the bright pale sand in the
                                                             spring's mouth
"Behold the Tree of Visages!"
Forked branch-tips, flaming as if with lotus.
                 Ply over ply
The shallow eddying fluid,
                 beneath the knees of the gods.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM