He helped T. S. Eliot in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver to appoint Eliot as his successor at The Egoist (helped by Pound), and later in 1919 with an introduction to the editor Bruce Richmond of The Times Literary Supplement, for which he reviewed French literature [REF].
Aldington made an effort with A Fool i' the Forest (1924) to reply to the new style of poetry initiated by The Waste Land.