T. E. Hulme
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Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – September 28, 1917) was an English writer,critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism,especially the Imagist poetic form.
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[edit] Speculations Essays 1924
- The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.
- A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
- The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope,the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
[edit] Lecture 1914
- The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem,not its local felicities.
[edit] Notes on Language and Style (1929)
- Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
[edit] Other
- Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them
- Literature,like memory,selects only the vivid patches.
- Notes of T E Hulme,Imagism & Imagists-Glenn Hughes,Stanford University Press ,1931
- Old houses were scaffolding once
and workmen whistling.- "Images"
