... of 1915. With the publication of the volume  Prufrock and Other Observations by The Egoist Press in 1917, Eliot was heralded as the most important of modern poets. He also became the most influential critical voice of the movement, arguing for example that, in modern civilization, "the poet ... diction with Pound, who helped him publish his early works of poetry. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was not only his first important publication, but the first masterpiece of "modernism" in English, in which, he examines, through the introspections of the narrator, the emptiness and ... ...

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