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Another early precursor from Herbert is " Easter Wings ", in which the overall typography of the poem is in the shape of its subject.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll contains a similar effect in the form of the mouse's " Tale ", which is in the shape of a tail.

In the early 20th century, artists and poets comprising the Futurism movement used concrete poetry as a dynamic expression of their anarchistic philosophies.

F. T. Marinetti was the most prolific poet among them, and created several works that destroyed all typographic conventions.

More recent poets sometimes cited as influences by concrete poets include Guillaume Apollinaire, E. E. Cummings, for his various typographical innovations, and Ezra Pound, for his use of Chinese ideograms, as well as various dadaists.

Concrete poetry, however, is a more self-conscious form than these predecessors, using typography in part to comment on the fundamental instability of language.

Among the better known concrete poets in the English language are Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Edwin Morgan.

A few well-known concrete poets outside the English language are András Petöcz in the Hungarian language and Joan Brossa in the Catalan language.

Several important concrete poets have also been significant sound poets, among them Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, and Bob Cobbing.