John Davidson (1857-igo8), and especially his poem "Thirty Bob a Week," with its stark presentation of a city clerk. He had "found inspiration in the content of the poem," Eliot later recalled, "and in the complete fitness of content and idiom: for I also had a good many dingy urban images to reveal."' More important, however, was his discovery of Arthur Symons, whose study of The Symbolist Movement in Literature he purchased in December 19o8.