"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by the American-born British poet T. S. Eliot. It relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of co
Cover page of The Egoist Ltd's publication of Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
T. S. Eliot in 1923, photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell
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Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is wi
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
…in poetry from late-19th-century Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to Modernism. Its structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri and makes several references to the Bible and other literary works – including William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV Part II, Twelfth Night and Hamlet…
Alleged Dante portrait in the chapel of the Bargello palace, Florence.
Dante's house museum in Florence. The house has been significantly altered since Dante's time.
Dante and Beatrice, by Henry Holiday, inspired by La Vita Nuova, 1883
Dante in Verona, by Antonio Cotti, 1879