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- SIGNED unbound
- Rutherford , 1959
Rutherford, 1959. unbound. fine. 1 page (24 lines in three paragraphs) on 4to onion skin paper. Rutherford, N.J. March 16, 1959. Fine.
Important letter about poetry, in an apparent answer to an inquiry about whether he has been faithful to Imagist principles. "...Pure Imagism as an influence is dead...the image is paramount in every poem written after the blight of modern magazine verse ...No one begins his lines with capitals any more. No one bothers to rhyme any more....I have persisted in writing in the American idiom ...and the principle of the variable foot has become more and more important to me... "
Important letter about poetry, in an apparent answer to an inquiry about whether he has been faithful to Imagist principles. "...Pure Imagism as an influence is dead...the image is paramount in every poem written after the blight of modern magazine verse ...No one begins his lines with capitals any more. No one bothers to rhyme any more....I have persisted in writing in the American idiom ...and the principle of the variable foot has become more and more important to me... "