Prufrock and Other Observations

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Prufrock and Other Observations is T. S. Eliot’s first published collection of poems, notable for introducing his modernist style and including the landmark poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author T. S. Eliot
containsPoem Aunt Helen
Conversation Galante
Cousin Nancy
Hysteria
La Figlia che Piange
Morning at the Window
Mr. Apollinax
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
The Boston Evening Transcript
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
firstCollectionOf T. S. Eliot
firstEditionYear 1917
form free verse
genre modernist poetry
hasCriticalReception initially modest but later widely acclaimed
hasLiterarySignificance early landmark of Anglo-American modernist poetry
hasSubject modern city life
psychological introspection
time and mortality
hasTitlePoem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
influencedBy French symbolism
surface form: French Symbolism

Metaphysical poetry
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
medium print
notableFor including the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
introducing T. S. Eliot’s mature modernist style
numberOfPoems 12
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
precededBy individual magazine publications of some poems
publicationYear 1917
publisher The Egoist Press
targetAudience adult readers
theme disillusionment
fragmentation
spiritual crisis
urban alienation

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock laterPublishedIn Prufrock and Other Observations
J. Alfred Prufrock appearsIn Prufrock and Other Observations
J. Alfred Prufrock collectedIn Prufrock and Other Observations