Erza Pound and Amy Lowell were both considered Imagism poets. Pound would disagree with this statement, but none the less they are both in the imagist category. Pound, H.D., Richard Aldington, and F.S. Flint founded the Imagist poets group. They founded it on three Do’s. Pound’s definition of “an image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex of an instant of time” (347). Pound wanted this form of poetry to be simplistic. Pound later turned away from imagism. He did this upon the late arrival of Amy Lowell into their group of poets. Pound felt she was “taking over Imagism, turning it toward what he considered sentimentality and derided” (347), Pound called it “Amygism” (347).

Amy Lowell’s poetry was broad in contrast to the precision and focus of the founded Imagist work. After Pound left the Imagist’s group, Lowell formed her own group and changed the rules of Imagism to suit her style and ideas. Lowell and other poets appeared in a volume called “Des Imagistes.”