I'm a bit behind, so I'm going to make this one quick.
As usual, Poetry has a mixture of hip and un-hip poems in it. This time hip's represented by omnipresent Ezra Pound's clutch of poems and Lustra. There's not much imagism-istic about them, 'cepting moments (pale carnage).
Joseph Campbell, and Irish ethnomusicologist, has a few poems in here. Unclear whether the poems are folk-found lyrics or originals, but one is about a puca (see Jimmy Stewart and Harvey).
Harriet Monroe writes a cool editorial about meter--citing Sidney Lanier, she claims that English verse is quantitative. She uses musical notation to scan Shakespeare quantitatively, which could have been picked up more broadly as the stress-unstress system is just as clunky now as then.
Yeats and Vachel Lindsay won the inaugural poetry prize--though the editors do mention that they weren't eligible.
Sorry for the dash'ed dashedness of this--
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