Des Imagistes

Des Imagistes: An Anthology

Editor	Ezra Pound
Subject	Imagism
Publisher	The Glebe; Charles and Albert Boni; Poetry Bookshop
Publication date	February 1914 (1914-02)
Publication place	United States

Des Imagistes: An Anthology, edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914, was the first anthology of the Imagism movement. It was published in The Glebe in February 1914, and later that year as a book by Charles and Albert Boni in New York, and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London.^[1]

The eleven authors featured were: Richard Aldington, Skipwith Cannell, John Cournos, H. D., F. S. Flint, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Allen Upward, and William Carlos Williams.

Aldington later wrote regarding the title: "What Ezra thought that meant remains a mystery, unless the word "Anthologie" was assumed to precede it. Amy Lowell's anthologies were called Some Imagist Poets, so she may have supposed that Ezra thought Des Imagistes meant 'Quelques Imagistes.' But why a French title for a collection of poems by a bunch of young American and English authors? Search me. Ezra liked foreign titles."^[2]

Notes

1. Monfort, Nick et al. "Des Imagistes" Archived 2010-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, desimagistes.com, accessed October 20, 2010.
2. *Aldington, Richard. Life for Life's Sake, The Viking Press, 1941, p. 137.

External links

• Des Imagistes at Project Gutenberg
• Des Imagistes - .pdf of original book publication in New York by Albert and Charles Boni, bearing the inscription, Lloyd R. Morris, 1914.
• Des Imagistes in The Glebe at The Modernist Journals Project
• The Glebe Volume 1, February 1914 (facsimile) - Princeton Blue Mountain collection
• Des Imagistes at The Modernist Journals Project: includes New York and London editions of the 1914 volume
• Some Imagist Poets (1915) at The Modernist Journals Project
• Some Imagist Poets (1916) at The Modernist Journals Project
• Some Imagist Poets (1917) at The Modernist Journals Project