# Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments

By Arthur Davison Ficke and Witter Bynner.

"Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments" by Arthur Davison Ficke and Witter Bynner is a poetry collection published in 1916. Writing under pseudonyms, these accomplished American poets created an elaborate hoax to satirize the Imagism movement. They invented a fake poetic school called Spectrism, complete with a manifesto and opus-numbered poems. The work fooled readers and even their publisher initially, gaining acceptance as a legitimate movement for two years before the authors revealed the truth in 1918. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: American poetry

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