Abstract
By 1925, then, Aldington was prepared to use hard words about Eliot. Yet in the early 1920s the two men were friends and intellectual allies.To explore their relationship, we must briefly move back a little in time. Before their friendship, in 1917 Eliot had praised Aldington’s prose poems in what was otherwise an all-out attack on vers libre.1 In the same year Eliot briefly echoed this praise in his well-known essay, ‘Ezra Pound, His Metric and Poetry’.2 For his part, Aldington within months of demobilisation in 1919 several times felt the impulse to convey to Eliot an admiration of his critical essays. He did write in July and praised Eliot as ‘the only modem writer of prose criticism in English’; but there was another side: ‘I feel compelled to add that I dislike your poetry very much; it is over intellectual and afraid of those essential emotions which make poetry’.3
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