Date of Award
1-1937
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Thomas P. Whelan
Abstract
Every reader, I am sure, has at one time or another chanced upon a passage which instantly struck his attention by its resemblance to something else which he had read. He may have dismissed this occurrence as a merely accidental similarity, or he may have questioned whether one work had influenced the other. The latter has been my experience. In reading the poetry of Theophile Gautier, I was startled by its similarity to some of the poetry of Amy Lowell and by its adherence to two of the principles of Imagism, as set forth by Miss Lowell in the preface to the Imagist anthology of 1915. I wondered, then, whether Imagism could have possibly derived from French poetry, and it is that question which this thesis attempts to investigate. I fully realize the danger in any study of comparative literature, that is, of seeing relationships where none in reality exist, but I propose to draw only those conclusions which follow logically from the evidence presented.
Recommended Citation
Zedler, Beatrice Hope, "French Origins of American Imagist Poetry" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 1261.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1261
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Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Milwaukee, Wisconsin