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[9]: 297 In June 1917 The Egoist Ltd, a small publishing firm run by Dora Marsden, published a pamphlet entitled Prufrock and Other Observations (London), containing 12 poems by Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was the first in the volume. [1] Eliot was appointed assistant editor of The Egoist periodical in June 1917. [9]: 290
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was set to music by Tony Garone and Scott Harris. The video was made by Tony Garone himself, with illustrations by Julian Peters. [10] [11] In the album I am Nothing, Versus Shade Collapse has produced a musical adaptation of the poem called "An Adaptation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
The cover of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, published in 1917, a collection of twelve poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" referenced in the title. A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook.
T. S. Eliot in 1934. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer, Ltd., [1]: pp.50–51 after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922).
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in Poetry magazine in Chicago (June), then, later this year, in a book in the United Kingdom; F. S. Flint, Cadences [12] Wilfrid Gibson, Battle [12] Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain, lines on the loss of the Titanic" Ford Madox Hueffer, Antwerp; Violet Jacob, Songs of Angus ...
The phrase "there will be time" occurs repeatedly in a section of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), and is often said to be an allusion to Marvell's poem. [10] Prufrock says that there will be time "for the yellow smoke that slides along the street", time "to murder and create", and time "for a hundred indecisions ...
The long quotation from Dante's Inferno that prefaces T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is part of a speech by one of the damned in Dante's Hell. The epigraph to E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime quotes Scott Joplin's instructions to those who play his music, "Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast."
He wanted to be a poet. He had completed The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in 1911, [18] the poem that was to make his name when it was published in Chicago in 1915, and he saw remaining in England as a way to escape his parents' plans for him. [18]