Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?

A. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

B. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

D. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

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