The range of possible allusions grew, wider too. T.S. Eliot quoted the indian Upanisgads; Ezra pound quoted Latin and ancient Greek. Hemingway referred to African tribal customs; Marianne Moore invoked both baseball and basilisks. The reader's familiarity was no longer assumed or even required. The end result was a world-embracing awareness in American literature, a breadth of vision that still amazes us today.