A topic within Poetry, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Ezra Pound
Collects Pound's early Imagist and pre-Imagist lyrics built on his rule to present 'the image' directly and cut every word that does not serve it, founding a compression later poets treated as a default.
link checked 17 Sept 2026T. S. Eliot
Fractures its five-part structure across shifting voices, languages and literary quotations to enact rather than describe a postwar civilisation's collapse into fragments, held together by allusion rather than narrative.
link checked 17 Sept 2026