The Early 20th Century Poetry Movement was a literary movement that began in the early 1900s and was characterized by its use of free verse and imagism. Imagism was a style of poetry that focused on creating clear, precise images with few words. It was developed by Ezra Pound and other poets such as Amy Lowell and Hilda Doolittle. Imagism was an influential movement in modernist poetry and had a lasting impact on the development of literature.