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Abstract Robert Lowell and William Carlos Williams became increasingly interested in each other’s poetics from the late 1940s, sometimes to the consternation of poets who saw them as representing quite different directions for mid-century American poetry. This article focuses on the various ways other poets in the Lowell and Williams circles responded to this friendship and admiration, including puzzlement, scorn, surprise, and, in the case of Ezra Pound, as an opportunity.

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