... 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 believe that this publication marked the maturity of the 20th century poetic revolution, as the reformation of verse rhythms and poetic diction at large ... really started to take off. It also marked a distinctive break with the bourge...

• Word Count: 1915
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... in 1965. Elliot moved to Great Britain after a trip to Germany was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. Following the War, during the 1920s he spent most of his time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris. With the help of Ezra Pound, the publication of his first poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, earned him tremendous recognition throughout the European literary community. His style was contemporary and more modern then ... the rustic poetry which characterized the early twentieth century (Sheridan, 342). In 1922, he published The Waste Land, which g...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate