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Originally Published: August 28, 2024
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James Baldwin, 1964. Photo by R. L. Oliver, Los Angeles Times. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is one of the most famous poems in English. It’s one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry. It may have even invented modern poetry—along perhaps with experiments Gertrude Stein, another graduate of Harvard, was attempting at the same time. 

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I was jolly well right about Eliot. He has sent in the best poem I have yet had or seen from an American. PRAY GOD IT BE NOT A SINGLE AND UNIQUE
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— Harriet Monroe, on Prufrock
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One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.

By Peter O’Leary
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A little called anything shows shudders.

By Gertrude Stein
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An Online Exhibit on the Editing of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
By Tyler Malone & Robert Eric Shoemaker

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In the author's reading of the poem, things happen. Mr. Steevens, who passed many a social hour with him during their long acquaintance, which commenced when they both lived in the Temple, has preserved a good number of particulars concerning him, most of which are to be found in the department of Apothegms, &c. in the Collection of Johnson's Works. But he has been pleased to favour me with the following, which are original:--

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

These words provide a valuable entryway into Eliot’s poem. When he first drafted the poem, he was not necessarily intent on becoming a poet. He was studying to become a philosopher (and a professor) after all. But something in the poem—something about its inventiveness and cadences, for instance—compelled him that it was worthwhile enough a work that in London in 1914, upon meeting Pound, who already had a considerable reputation, he would summon the temerity to share his work. The poem launched his career. Granted, it didn’t launch like a rocket—it would take the 500 copies of Prufrock five years to sell—but the poem confirmed him as a poet, opening all the doors, even if it took some time for it to happen.

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"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table;"
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"Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo."
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"The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,"
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"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
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"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown." 
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"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? --"
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"I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
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His generous humanity to the miserable was almost beyond example. The following instance is well attested:--Coming home late one night, he found a poor woman lying in the street, so much exhausted that she could not walk; he took her upon his back, and carried her to his house, where he discovered that she was one of those wretched females who had fallen into the lowest state of vice, poverty, and disease. Instead of harshly upbraiding her, he had her taken care of with all tenderness for a long time, at considerable expence, till she was restored to health, and endeavoured to put her into a virtuous way of living.

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Introduction to the exhibition Monica Ong: Planetaria, with commentary from the artist and co-curators Katherine Litwin and Fred Sasaki. Free and open to all, Poetry Foundation exhibitions showcase work that brings together visual arts and the written word.

An extended audio described version of this video is available here for blind and low-vision audiences.

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