 Soon after arriving in England , H.D. showed Pound some poems she had written . Pound had already begun to meet with other poets at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in Soho . He was impressed by the closeness of H.D. ' s poems to the ideas and principles he had been discussing with Aldington , with whom he had shared plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse , the tanka and the tightness and conciseness of the haiku , and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage . In summer 1912 , the three poets declared themselves the " three original Imagists " , and set out their principles as : 
