Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology

John Gould Fletcher

1886–1950

An adventurous modernist voice, this Arkansas-born poet helped bring Imagism into American poetry and later became the first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. His work ranges from sharp, visual free verse to dreamlike meditations shaped by travel, art, and inner struggle.

A self-educated London poet and translator, he became one of the key early voices behind Imagism, helping shape modern poetry with sharp, economical language. His path from leaving school at thirteen to becoming a respected critic and man of letters gives his work an especially hard-won edge.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

1886–1961

A central voice of literary modernism, this American poet helped shape Imagism with spare, luminous verse that still feels fresh. She also wrote novels and memoirs that opened into mythology, memory, and inner life.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

1885–1930

A fierce, searching voice of English literature, this novelist and poet wrote with unusual candor about love, class, desire, and the strain modern life puts on the human spirit. His books still feel alive because they push past manners and convention to ask what it really means to live fully.

Amy Lowell

1874–1925

A bold American poet of the Imagist movement, she helped push modern poetry toward sharper images, freer rhythms, and a more conversational voice. Her work ranged from intimate lyric poems to ambitious longer pieces, and it won lasting recognition after her death with the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.