Langdon Hammer teaches this lecture from Yale's Modern Poetry course (ENGL 310), tracing Imagism through the poetry and prose that defined it. He opens with Hilda Doolittle, reading her poems Garden, Sea Rose, and Oread closely for the movement's insistence on precise, unsentimental imagery. Ezra Pound's role in defining the school follows, including his own account of composing In a Station of the Metro and what that account reveals about Imagist method. The lecture closes on Pound's translations from Chinese poetry, Li Po's Jewel Stairs' Grievance and River Merchant's Wife: A Letter, examining how his engagement with a foreign poetic tradition shaped Imagist technique. Hammer moves chapter by chapter through specific texts rather than abstractions, treating the movement as a set of concrete choices about language and form. Recorded in 2007 as part of the Open Yale Courses series.