Poem - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock By T. S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
    A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
    Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
    Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
    Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
    Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.

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Poem - Gerontion By T.S. Eliot

Gerontion:

HERE I am, an old man in a dry month,   
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.   
I was neither at the hot gates   
Nor fought in the warm rain   
Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass

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Literary Figures - T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot:

Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888-1965

An American publisher, playwright, literary and social critic.

His best-known poems are:

Gerontion (1920)
The Waste Land (1922)
The Hollow Men (1925)
Ash Wednesday (1930)
Four Quartets (1945)

He specifically identified as Anglo-Catholic, proclaiming himself classicist in literature, royalist in politics.

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