Prufrock: and Other Observations

by T. S. Eliot

Overview

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

Am an attendant lord, one that will do

To swell a progress, start a scene or two,

Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,

Deferential, glad to be of use,

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;

At times, indeed, almost ridiculous--

Almost, at times, the Fool."

-T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

*Prufrock and Other Observations* (1917), a twelve-poem collection, includes *The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock*. This poem by T.S. Eliot was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement and one of the most influential poems of modern times. It represents the thoughts of a mature man as he searches for love and meaning in an uncertain world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646793181
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	11/18/2020
Pages:	42
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965), banker, lecturer, poet, playwright and editor, a graduate of Harvard, a student at the Sorbonne and at Oxford, was considered one of the 20th century's major poets. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to England in 1914, where he became a British citizen in 1927.