... 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 ... and the spiritual bankruptcy of the post-war epoch and portrayed apocalyptical pictures of total devastation, death and horror caused by the irreversible historic cataclysms. From 1917 to 1...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to her confinement in institutions from 1930 until her death in 1947. The emotional difficulties produced by the marriage evidently prompted some intense passages in Eliot's poetry. Eliot was remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956. Living in London, he worked as a teacher and bank clerk and helped edit a magazine called ... died in London on Jan. 4, 1965. Probably his most famous work, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, was published in the Chicago based journal Poetry in 1915, though evidence exists that Eliot had sketched the beginnings of this work during his years as a student at H...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School