Intelligence Squared - TS Eliot reads The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

TS Eliot reads The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

Nobel Prize winning American poet TS Eliot (1888-1965) wrote The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock between 1910 and 1911, although it was not published until 1915. The poem is Eliot's first major work, and takes the form of an internal monologue as a stream of consciousness. Strongly influenced by French Symbolists, such as Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire at the time of writing the poem, Eliot's speaker is an urban, isolated and sensuous man, Prufrock. As Prufrock comes to terms with his own inadequacies, the reader sees his neuroticism and his emotional isolation.

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TS Eliot reads The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

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