To achieve this Eliot incorporated allusions into his work. These references added historical context and depth to his poetry. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens objected to Eliot's heavy reliance on allusion, calling it overly intellectual and an obstacle to the sound and rhythm of the poem. Although Stevens' portrait of the bleak present was similar to Eliot's imaginings, Stevens chose to focus on an American future rather than a European past. List of works cited Eliot, TS and Michael North. The Waste Land: authoritative text, contexts, criticism. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. Print. Eliot, T. S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Prufrock and other observations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Page no. Bartleby.com. August 2011. Web. 11 March 2014.Pound, Ezra. "Some Don'ts of an Imagiste." Journal of Poetry 1.6 (1913): 95-97. The Poetry Foundation. Network. March 11, 2014.Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O'Clair. The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. Print.Stevens, Wallace. "The man with the blue guitar." Wallace Stevens - Collection of poems and prose. Np: Library of America, 1997. 135-51.