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Skipwith Cannell, born in 1887, was an American poet associated with the Imagist movement. His poetry was first anthologized by Ezra Pound in Des Imagistes: An Anthology (Albert and Charles Boni, 1914). In 1915, he joined Alfred Kreymborg, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, to found Others: A Magazine of the New Verse. Cannell died in 1957.
David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic.
Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire, England, in 1892. An early member of the Imagist movement, he was the author of War and Love (1915-1919) (The Four Seas Company, 1919), Images (The Egoist, 1919), and numerous other books of poetry and prose.
Born on August 3, 1937, Diane Wakoski has published more than forty collections of poems
Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.
Born in 1886, Hilda Doolittle was one of the leaders of the Imagist movement. She published numerous poetry collections, including Sea Garden (Constable and Company, 1916) and Helen in Egypt (Grove Press, 1961). She died in 1961.