Eliot and Yeats

Yeats and Eliot are generally supposed to have had little in common, either in their thinking or in the manner and style of their work. Indeed, it is generally assumed that they were at best chary of each other and at worst antagonistic. This view has been powerfully put by a poet who knew them both as close friends: in a letter of 21 November 1957 Ezra Pound wrote to George Yeats, W. B. Yeats’s widow: My benevolent speculation | not retrospective but as insemination was as to whether TSE and..