... prevailing fashions in writing. More significant than Georgian poetry, although short-lived as a movement, were the Imagist poets, whose first anthology – Des Imagistes (1914) – was edited by the American exile Ezra Pound. Imagist poems tend to be short, sharp glimpses, which contrast with the lushness of Romantic and Victorian verse. Imagism was a movement designed to replace the 'soft ... main stages to Yeats's development as a poet. The first phase, when he was associated both with the Aesthetic movement of the 1890s and the Celtic Twilight, is characterised by a selfconscio...

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