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Definition of Imagistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imagistic
Literary usage of Imagistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Computer Science Research Activities in Asia: AI and Expert Systems by David K. Kahaner (1994)
"(imagistic reasoning is sometimes called visual reasoning.) The goal is to study
how and in what situations these imagistic chunks should be acquired and ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... is imagistic, we mean that each one of them states a thing apprehended through
the external sense; something seen, heard, or done, enclosing a spiritual ..."
3. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"Older adolescents are moreover capable of interpreting the advertisements in
imagistic terms related to attractive features of adult life. ..."
4. The Kinds of Poetry: And Other Essays by John Erskine (1920)
"... owe perhaps as much to the verse of contemporary France as some imagistic
prophets, Miss Lowell for example, think they owe, or think they should owe. ..."
5. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones (1918)
"In "Keaa" he uses blank verse in a series of little imagistic passages that are
striking, unconventional, and rich in poetic suggestiveness. ..."
6. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"In "Keaa" he uses blank verse in a series of little imagistic passages that are
striking, unconventional, and rich in poetic suggestiveness. ..."
7. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"But the more arresting aspect of Mr. Sandburg's achievement is, for myself, the
so-called imagistic aspect; the aspect, that is to say, ..."
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