Word: prufrocks
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...bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna...
Marquand's writing puts the ideas of T. S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock into the language of a Saturday Evening Post serial. Years of entertaining readers of The Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, etc., brought Marquand enough money so that he could try his hand at more serious fiction. But thanks to that rigorous training, his serious books are 1) far easier reading than literature needs to be, 2) almost as profitable as the serialized adventures of his Japanese sleuth, Mr. Moto...
...fact, it is of capital importance in any consideration of Eliot. By calling most of Eliot's poetry 'dramatic' Mr. Matthiessen means that Eliot seldom speaks in his own person, even in poems which may seem to be lyrica. Thus Eliot is not Tiresias or Apeneck Sweeney or Mr. Prufrock, and the peculiar spiritual attributes of each are not necessarily Eliot's. The poems in which the persons cited appear are often called to witness by sociological critics of the Marxist persuasion as evidences of Eliot's state of mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters of the contemporary...