Flint was a real person, a poet, and critic who championed free verse and some of the poetic ideas associated with imagism before the publication of this little essay, but Ezra Pound later claimed that he, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and her husband, Richard Aldington, had actually written the "note" on Imagism.
UFS Flint wayengumuntu wangempela, imbongi kanye nomgxeki ophikisana nevesi elikhululekile kanye neminye imibono yezinkondlo ezihlobene nokucabanga ngaphambi kokushicilelwa kwale ncazelo encane, kodwa u-Ezra Pound kamuva wathi yena, uHilda Doolittle (HD) nomyeni wakhe uRichard U-Aldington, ngempela wayibhale "inothi" ekucabangeni.