ABSTRACT
T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound are three of the most significant figures in the early twentieth-century literary phenomenon we have come to call modernism. They revolutionized Anglo-American poetry, arguing that traditional poetic forms and themes could no longer encapsulate the experience of the modern world. They were pioneers in the use of free verse and in their expansion of the subject matter of poetry. During his short career, T.E. Hulme provided the intellectual impetus for Pound’s imagist movement, which Eliot called ‘the startingpoint of modern poetry’ (1978: 58). Eliot’s The Waste Land and Pound’s The Cantos are renowned as two of the most innovative and influential poems in the English language.
