imagist

noun

1. A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism

   “Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.”

   “D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of imagist.

   “While in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce) or had moved on to other projects (Pound, Wyndham Lewis) without being succeeded by a second generation, for these women Imagism opened up more long-term possibilities.”

   “Assessments of H.D.'s early poetry have tended to concentrate on her purely as an Imagist.”

   “The Imagists examined the human perceptual habituation and the force of images on the mind.”

adj

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.

   “D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.”

   “Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.”

   “Altieri argues that 'Williams still locates affect in the rendering of a scene', which seems true of Williams's shorter, more imagist poems.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of imagist.

   “Its style was more Imagist than anything else, however.”

   “It may be that I have asked the same Imagist abilities of my readers as the poets I have considered asked of theirs.”

   “Perhaps for this reason the Imagist poets soon went off on their different – if perhaps parallel — paths.”