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Women as Poets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Diana Collecott Surman
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , August 1979 , pp. 265 - 270
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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19 Smith, p. 10.

20 See, for instance, K. L. Goodwin'S description of W. C. Williams' “ first poem ” (of about 1901) as “ very like many ‘ Imagist ’ poems, though Imagism as a movement was not inaugurated until 1908 ”: The Influence of Ezra Pound (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1966), p. 2Google Scholar. The Americanness of Imagist strategies is most interestingly discussed in Tanner, Tony, The Reign of Wonder (Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1965)Google Scholar.

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