First published in 1915, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” takes the form of a monologue spoken by a balding man who’s achingly aware of his own awkward persona, stodgy existence and ...

One hundred years ago this month, ”The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot was first published in Poetry magazine. Ezra Pound heralded it as “the best poem I have yet s… ...

I’m not referring to T.S. Eliot, but rather to the Prufrock family name that Eliot immortalized 100 years ago with the publication of his first manuscript, Prufrock and Other Observations. “The Love ...

Try though I may, I simply can't purge Prufrock – or Eliot's tortured attempt at reading it – from my memory. Even after 55 years, I can still recite large chunks of the poem unprompted.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He settled in London in 1915 and became a British citizen in 1927. Encouraged by Ezra Pound, he began ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": back in 1917, then, before ever you entered upon reading a line of poetry by T. S. Eliot, you were met by a crystalline air thick with prejudice.

Alan Yentob presents a programme about one of his favourite poems, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, by TS Eliot, first published 100 years ago. With a reading by Jeremy Irons. Show more TS ...

The original cuffed-trouser urbanite on the hunt for authenticity—and undercutting it with his own self-consciousness—was J. Alfred Prufrock.

T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons. I map out mine in bowls of borscht. The best borscht I ever had was in a punk house the summer before I turned 18. At that ...