F.S. Flint - Swan Songs & Other Verse

F.S. Flint - Swan Songs & Other Verse Forgotten Poets #19 / forgottenpoets.substack.com ‘Swan Songs & Other Verse’ [124 pages] brings together a generous selection of London poet F.S. Flint’s Imagist & free verse from In the Net of Stars (1909), Cadences (1915), and Otherworld: Cadences (1920), and the essays ‘Recent Verse’ (1908) and ‘The History of Imagism’ (1915). With a selection of woodcut illustrations by L.F. Wilford. Well known as one of the founders of the 'School of Images' (1908-9) and the later 'Imagism' movement (1912-17), along with T.E. Hulme, Edward Storer, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Flint was a forerunner to the explosion of English-language free verse in the 1910s and 20s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -: November :- What is eternal of you I saw in both your eyes. You were among the apple branches; the sun shone, and it was November. Sun and apples and laughter and love we gathered, you and I. And the birds were singing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -: Cones :- The blue mist of after-rain fills all the trees; The sunlight gilds the tops of the poplar spires, far off, behind the houses. Here a branch sways and there a sparrow twitters. The curtain’s hem, rose-embroidered, flutters, and half reveals a burnt-red chimney pot. The quiet in the room bears patiently a footfall on the street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in. These are not "reprints" of previously published books, but newly crafted collections, for the serious poetry lover.