... the poet, and he expressed it in his early works (1909 - 1920). Thus the confusion and vulgarity of the civilization became the object of his bitterly critical poetry. His first important publication, and the first masterpiece of modernism in English, was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which was later included in Eliot's first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). They ... highly complicated and symbolic and full of erudite allusions. In 1936 the poet even attached Notes on the Waste Land to the edition in order to explain the work's many quotations and allusions. The pu...

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