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...Alfred Prufrock ("I grow old. ... I grow old. ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"). "The young man in Prufrock" said Eliot, "is meant to signify someone young and sportive and a man conscious of growing...
...chronicling the doings of King Bolo, he contributed romantic verse to the Harvard Advocate. After Harvard, Eliot went to study in Paris for a year ("on the old man's money"), and in a Left Bank flat wrote his first significant poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the portrait of an aging man reviewing a life frittered away between timid hopes and lost opportunities...
...Eliot the banker, in his bowler hat, black coat and sponge-bag (checked) trousers, was only one of several simultaneous incarnations. There was also the dreamily peripatetic Mr. Eliot who walked on the beach wearing, like Prufrock, white flannel trousers and reading Virgil or Dante. Above all, dogging the steps of the other Messrs. Eliot, was the increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck...
...recording by T. S. Elliot 10, reading his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," appeared in Square stores this week. The reading, which covers both sides of a 12-inch record, was made in London recently by the Harvard Vocarium, which collects records of poets reading from their own works...
...additional pair of discs, already cut is scheduled for release in a few months. These include Eliot reading "Difficulty of Statesmen," "Triumphal March," and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...