They started meeting with other poets at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in Soho to discuss reform of contemporary poetry through free verse and the tanka and haiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems. The Objectivists were admirers of Stein, Pound and Williams and Pound actively promoted their work. Though his language is generally direct, at times, it is loaded with unusual words and sentences. He is one of the important poets of this century. Country landscape and scene are beautiful to look at from a distance, but if one gets closer to them, he becomes aware of discomfort and hardship of life. 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Thanks to his influence, Zukofsky was asked to edit a special Objectivist issue of the Chicago-based journal Poetry in 1931 to launch the group. Einstein, Darwin, Freud and Marx were just some of the thinkers who profoundly changed Western culture. He is the central figure of the group who began Movement poetry. We hope to honor the women on this list, and by writing it we hope to draw more attention to their works. The poems which he wrote in America are concerned very closely with the individual in contemporary organized society. He did not follow the models and traditions of earlier poetry. Although he was never formally associated with the Imagist group, his work was admired by Pound, who, in 1915, helped him publish "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which brought him to prominence. He was a keen observer of nature. When the World War I came in 1914, the poets’ minds were filled with heroic and nationalistic feelings. Charles Olson, the theorist of the Black Mountain group, wrote in his 1950 essay, Projectivist Verse 'ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION', a statement that links back directly to the Imagists. This late 19th and early 20th century movement is characterized by the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression. The influence of modernism can be seen in these poetic groups and movements, especially those associated with the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat generation, the Black Mountain poets, and the deep image group. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, however, "The unnatural, that too is natural," and the metaphysical poets continue to be studied and revered for their intricacy and originality. A long poem that is often overlooked, because it first appeared in the commercially unsuccessful 1936 anthology New Provinces, is Canadian poet A. M. Klein's meditation on Spinoza, "Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens.". Both of these poets were students of the early Greek lyric poetry, especially the works of Sappho. Hardy is regarded as a great English poet of this century. "The sense that, by the nineteen-forties, modern poetry had become too difficult-too remote from ordinary language and subjects, too hard to understand-was practically the only thing that united American poets of the mid-twentieth century: academic and populist, the students of John Crowe Ransom and the companions of Allen Ginsberg." Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. Consequently, modernism in English remained in the role of an avant garde movement, depending on little presses and magazines and a small but dedicated readership. He is the central figure of the group who began Movement poetry. 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