Track Title Length
1 01 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 8:23
2 02 - Portrait of a Lady 7:32
3 03 - Preludes 2:35
4 04 - Rhapsody 3:40
5 05 - Morning at the Window 0:39
6 06 - The Boston Evening Transcript 0:50
7 07 - Aunt Helen 1:00
8 08 - Cousin Nancy 0:50
9 09 - Mr. Appolinax 1:36
10 10 - Hysteria 1:10
11 11 - Conversation Galante 1:12
12 12 - La Figlia che Piange 1:36

Production
Read by: D. S. Harvey
Produced by D. S. Harvey

Artwork
Cover: "Sunday Afternoon" Photograph of T.S. Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938).
Insert image: Title page to Prufrock and Other Observations.    





Prufrock and Other Observations is the title of a pamphlet of twelve poems by T. S. Eliot published in 1917 by The Egoist, a small publishing firm run by Dora Marsden, an English suffragette and philosopher of language. Most of the poems had been published earlier in literary magazines, most notably the “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, which was Eliot’s first published poem and appeared in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Modern Verse at the urging of Ezra Pound, overseas editor for the magazine. Prufrock is a dramatic interior monologue of a modern urban man trapped in an inertia of isolation and indecision that has been described as a “drama of literary anguish”. The poem was influenced by The Divine Comedy and is peppered with references to the Bible, Shakespeare plays, and the works of metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell and the French symbolist poets.  It was considered outlandish when it first appeared.  One anonymous London reviewer commented that "The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself. They certainly have no relation to poetry." As it happens, Prufrock and the companion poems in this volume helped effect a paradigm shift away from Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to what came to be called Modernism and introduced one of the most distinctive voices and recognized voices in modern literature.


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EAN - DVD case 0701236969993
EAN - CD jacket 0682550991603
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Box
Author Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Year 1917
Recording
Read by D. S. Harvey
Length 31 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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