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The paper analyzes a life-long poetical dialogue between T.S.Eliot and E.Pound. On the one hand, it supports on various levels the mythology that identifies both poets as the makers of the literary modernism. On the other, it is rather private (especially in Pound’s case) and shows the friends from an unusual, an “unsaintly” point of view. V.M.Tolmatchoff brings together 7 images of Eliot in Pound’s “Cantos” (“Canto VIII” – a citation from Eliot’s poetry; “Canto XXIX” – Arnaut Daniel as a mask of Eliot; “Canto XLVI” – a citation from Pound’s letter to Eliot; “Canto LXXVII” – a reference to a biographical episode, Eliot’s 1917 contact with Serafima Astafieva; “Canto LXXIII” – an image of Verona meeting of Pound and ‘il decaduto’; “Canto LXV” – an image of Eliot as a reader / listener of the “Cantos”; “Canto LXXX” –Eliot as a bearer of the esoteric knowledge) and 3 images of Pound in Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (parts 1, 5) and “Ash Wednesday”. Known in general to major specialists in Pound and Eliot (perhaps, with exception of a possible Pound’s presence in the final part of “The Waste Land”), this important material needs additional interpretation and understanding.