F. S. Flint
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Frank Stuart Flint was an English
England
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 poet
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A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and translator
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 who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature...

 called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country".

He is mostly known for his participation in the "School of Images" with Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

 and T. E. Hulme
T. E. Hulme
Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism.-Early life:...

 in 1909
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, of which he gave an account in the "Poetry Review" in 1909, and which was to serve as the theoretical basis for the later imagist movement (1913
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). He also published on French poets
French poetry
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 starting in 1908
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, and published a series of articles on contemporary French poets (1912
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) that much influenced his contemporaries. In 1914 he was included by Pound in Des Imagistes
Des Imagistes
Des Imagistes, edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914, was the first anthology of the Imagism movement. It was published in The Glebe in February 1914, and later that year as a book by Charles and Albert Boni in New York, and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London.The eleven authors featured...

. He entered into a short-lived dispute with Pound as to each one's relative contribution to the imagist movement.

During the 1930s Flint was among a number of poets who moved away from poetry and towards economics,working for the Statistics Division of the Ministry of Labour writing that "[t]he proper study of mankind is, for the time being, economics" [C K Stead, 'Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement', p. 212]. Flint would go on to publish an article entitled 'The Plain Man and Economics' in The Criterion in 1937.

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