J alfred prufrock biography of william hill

1915 poem by T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by the American-born British poet T.

S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness.

J alfred prufrock biography of william hill

Eliot began writing the poem in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse^[2] at the instigation of fellow American expatriate Ezra Pound. It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem chapbook entitled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917.^[1] At the time of its publication, the poem was considered outlandish,^[3] but the poem is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic shift in poetry from late 19th-century Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to Modernism.

The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri^[4] and makes several references to the Bible and oth