... Faber. In 1927, he was confirmed in the Church of England and became a naturalized British citizen. Eliot was awarded the British Order of Merit in 1948, the same year he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He received the American Medal of Freedom in 1964. He 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 ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate