Eliot's primary poetic influences were the British poet-philosopher T.E. Hulme and the American Imagist poet, Ezra Pound, who was Eliot's lifetime supporter, admirer and editor. In his poetic theories, Pound propounded the devices and techniques of symbolism, imagism, vorticism, logopoeia, melopoeia, Ideogrammic Method and phanopoia. All of these methods advocated the abdication of extraneous objectification in favor of image in the poem. Eliot’s fascination with alt things British bordered on obsession and he was in his earlier poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" at times overwhelmed with his sense of American cultural inferiority. Eliot's objectivistic poetic choices while albeit fully imagist. tells the eclectic story of the doomed sub-classed Americans in British society. While Eliot is noted for his precision of images-the "quantification" of personal experiences and feeling-Eliot never forsook the moral values of the Western culture and Christian religion in which he was bred. Relating the doctrines of the formation of literature to poetry, Eliot then developed, in his theoretical paper, "hamlet" (1919). his notion of the "objective correlative."
