ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the underexamined role of Yone Noguchi on the formation of Ezra Pound’s Imagist movement, arguing Pound’s most likely source of information about haiku was Noguchi, a Japanese national living in Europe who began corresponding and exchanging poetry with Pound in 1911. Noguchi gave a series of lectures about haiku in London in 1914, and Hakutani suggests that Noguchi played a pivotal role in haiku’s reception by Pound and others, such as W. B. Yeats, and was indirectly behind a revolution in English poetry and the formation of such movements as Imagism and Vorticisim.
