![]() In 1912, Eliot revised the poem and included a 38-line section now called "Prufrock's Pervigilium" which was inserted on those blank pages, and intended as a middle section for the poem. According to the notebooks, now in the collection of the New York Public Library, Eliot finished the poem, which was originally published sometime in July and August 1911, when he was 22 years old. : 290 Prufrock's Pervigilium Īccording to Eliot biographer Lyndall Gordon, while Eliot was writing the first drafts of "Prufrock" in his notebook in 1910–1911, he intentionally kept four pages blank in the middle section of the poem. Eliot was appointed assistant editor of the Egoist in June 1917. Alfred Prufrock" was the first in the volume. : 297 In June 1917 The Egoist, a small publishing firm run by Dora Marsden, published a pamphlet entitled Prufrock and Other Observations (London), containing 12 poems by Eliot. Alfred Prufrock"-along with Eliot's poems " Portrait of a Lady", "The Boston Evening Transcript", "Hysteria", and "Miss Helen Slingsby"-was included in Catholic Anthology 1914–1915 edited by Ezra Pound and printed by Elkin Mathews in London. The rest of the promising young have done one or the other, but never both." The poem was first published by the magazine in its June 1915 issue. Pound claimed that Eliot "has actually trained himself AND modernized himself on his own. Alfred Prufrock", extolling that Eliot and his work embodied a new and unique phenomenon among contemporary writers. Pound served as the overseas editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and recommended to the magazine's founder, Harriet Monroe, that Poetry publish "The Love Song of J. Shortly after arriving in England to attend Merton College, Oxford, Eliot was introduced to American expatriate poet Ezra Pound, who instantly deemed Eliot "worth watching" and aided the start of Eliot's career. Alfred Prufrock" between February 1910 and July or August 1911. ![]() Eliot in 1923, photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell Writing and first publication Įliot wrote "The Love Song of J. With visceral feelings of weariness, regret, embarrassment, longing, emasculation, sexual frustration, a sense of decay, and an awareness of aging and mortality, "Prufrock" has become one of the most recognized voices in modern literature. Prufrock laments his physical and intellectual inertia, the lost opportunities in his life, and lack of spiritual progress, and is haunted by reminders of unattained carnal love. The poem, described as a "drama of literary anguish", is a dramatic interior monologue of an urban man stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action that is said "to epitomize frustration and impotence of the modern individual" and "represent thwarted desires and modern disillusionment". Eliot narrates the experience of Prufrock using the stream of consciousness technique developed by his fellow Modernist writers. The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri and makes several references to the Bible and other literary works-including William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV Part II, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet the poetry of seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell and the nineteenth-century French Symbolists. At the time of its publication, "Prufrock" was considered outlandish, but the poem is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic shift in poetry from late 19th-century Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to Modernism. It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem chapbook entitled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917. Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of fellow American expatriate Ezra Pound. The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as " Prufrock", is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. Cover page of The Egoist, Ltd.'s publication of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)Ĭhapbook (1917): The Egoist, Ltd.
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