imagismn.

1912 E. Pound Let. 1 Aug. (1971) 38 I should like the name ‘Imagisme’ to retain some sort of a meaning. It stands, or I should like it to stand for hard light, clear edges.

1913 Poetry (Chicago) Mar. 198 (title) Imagisme. Some curiosity has been aroused concerning Imagisme... Editor's Note—In response to many requests for information regarding Imagism and the Imagistes, we publish this note by Mr. Flint... Imagism is not necessarily associated with Hellenic subjects, or with vers libre as a prescribed form.

1917 N. Amer. Rev. 205 106 The third characteristic of The New Poetry, and particularly of Imagism, is what might be metaphorically described as faithfulness to the architectural line.

1929 A. Noyes Return of Scare-crow iv. 52 The sharp-edged imagism with which our younger writers are experimenting today.

1967 Listener 2 Mar. 297/2 Pound may have believed that his imagism..was an alternative to symbolism, but there is no reason now for us to agree with him.

2006 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Jan. c3 This stripling of 21 [sc. T. S. Eliot] is clearly one quick study, already a dab hand at reconstituting the sound and sense of symbolist vers libre and cutting-edge imagism into a stripped-down American idiom.

1952 R. I. Aaron Theory of Universals ii. 20 It might be argued that what Hobbes was attacking..was imagism rather than conceptualism, the notion [sc. imagism] that there must be an image before us whenever we universalize.

1953 H. H. Price Thinking & Experience viii. 234 The theory that thinking consists in operating with mental images..has no generally accepted name. I am going to call it ‘Imagism’.

1970 R. L. Armstrong Metaphysics & Brit. Empiricism vi. 124 There are no general ideas but only general terms; there are only particular ideas which are particular sense images—extreme nominalism and extreme empiricism (perhaps H. H. Price's term ‘Imagism’ describes it best).

1996 J. W. Yolton Perception & Reality 212 If a memory image is supposed to be similar to what a sensory mental image is like..then I have great difficulty in understanding the claim of imagism in sense perception.