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Who worked with Ezra Pound to formulate the Imagist manifesto?
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, c. 1913.
Ezra Pound formulated the Imagist manifesto around 1912 in conjunction with fellow poets H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Richard Aldington, and F.S. Flint.12
While these poets collaborated on the movement's program, the Imagist principles were also inspired by the critical views of the philosopher and literary critic T.E. Hulme, whose ideas served as a reaction against the Romantic optimism and careless thinking he perceived in the poetry of the time.12