Overview
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) is a collection of poems by T.S. Eliot. Published following the successful appearance of āThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockā in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Prufrock and Other Observations established Eliotās reputation as a leading English poet and pioneering literary Modernist.
Opening with āThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,ā the collection begins with an invocation of Dante, whom Eliot saw as an important innovator of a polyphonic, referential poetry capable of interrogating and dramatizing the construction and representation of the self. The poem is written from the perspective of a repressed, despairing middle-aged man who meditates on his relationships with women and the regrets he has accumulated with age. In āPreludes,ā a poem of urban malaise, Eliot āthinks of all the hands / That are raising dingy shades / In a thousand furnished rooms,ā and reaches for an understanding of the world as āsome infinitely gentle / Infinitely suffering thing.ā Other poems include āMorning at the Window,ā another brief vision of city life, āThe Boston Evening Transcript,ā a satirical reverie on time and community, and āCousin Nancy,ā a humorous lyric celebrating Miss Nancy Ellicott, who unabashedly āsmoked, / And danced all the modern dances. Both personal and universal, global in scope and intensely insular, Eliotās poetry changed the course of literary history, inspiring countless poets and establishing his reputation as one of the foremost artists of his generation.
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