In which essay does Pound define the Image as 'that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'?
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Correct answer: A. 'A Retrospect'
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First in 'A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste' (Poetry, 1913), reprinted in 'A Retrospect' (Pavannes and Divisions, 1918).
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