Gardner and Others is a term used to refer to the group of American writers, poets, and critics who were active in the early 20th century. The group included writers such as Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. AVAS is an acronym for the American Vorticist Association, which was founded by the poet and critic Ezra Pound in 1915. ERLES stands for the Egoist Review and Literary Supplement, which was a magazine published by the British writer and publisher Harriet Shaw Weaver from 1914 to 1919.