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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.
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.
T. E. Hulme, one of the founders of the imagist movement, was born on September 16, 1883, in Endon, England. He was killed in action during World War I on September 28, 1917.
Often associated with the Imagist movement, Ford Madox Ford was the author of numerous poetry collections, including New Poems (William Edwin Rudge, 1927). He fought in World War I from 1915 to 1917 and died in 1939.
F. S. Flint was born in London, England, on December 19, 1885. He grew up in poverty and finished his formal education at age thirteen.
Babette Deutsch was born on September 22, 1895, in New York City.