"Adler has also written that August Stramm's "essential innovation (still too little recognized in Germany) was to create a new, non-representational kind of poetry," which is, "comparable," to Pablo Picasso's creation of abstract art and to Arnold Schönberg's revolution in the writing of Classical music.In his 1985 book, "The German Poets of the First World War", Patrick Bridgwater dubbed the movement inspired by Stramm's poetry, "the German variety of Imagism."