Imagism was a development in the mid twentieth century in which writers opposed the imaginative style of the Romantics and Victorians. In particular, the Imagists supplanted unnecessary, dynamic, passionate terms and over the top style with exact, solid subtleties from reality.
They likewise supported word economy and straightforwardness and explored different avenues regarding structure versus the Romantics who advocated unnecessary symbolism and increasingly customary wonderful structures.
The development kept going from roughly 1909-1917 in Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States and affected what progressed toward becoming Modernism. Striking Imagist artists included Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell.