"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in popular culture T. S. Eliot's 1915 poem ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" is often referenced in popular culture. The poem is quoted several times, by various characters, in Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979). The film ""I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"" (1987) directed by Patricia Rozema takes its title from a line in the poem; as does the film ""Eat the Peach"" (1986), directed by Peter Ormrod. In the Woody Allen film ""Midnight in Paris"" (2011), Gil (Owen Wilson) mentions the poem to T.S. Eliot as they get into a"
"The Hollow Men ""The Hollow Men"" (1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned most with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised: compare ""Gerontion""), the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, and, as some critics argue, Eliot's own failed marriage (Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot might have been having an affair with Bertrand Russell). The poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines of which the last four are ""probably the most quoted lines of"
"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) is a long poem by Ezra Pound. It has been regarded as a turning point in Pound's career (by F.R. Leavis and others), and its completion was swiftly followed by his departure from England. The name ""Selwyn"" might have been an homage to Rhymers' Club member Selwyn Image. The name and personality of the titular subject is also reminiscent of T. S. Eliot's main character in ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"". The poem comprises eighteen short poems which are grouped into two sections. The first is a autobiography of Ezra Pound"
"poet T.S. Eliot's relationship to English literary society and his role in the formation of modernism, describes Eliot as a flâneur. Moreover, in one of Eliot's well-known poems ""The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"", the protagonist takes the reader for a journey through his city in the manner of a flâneur. In ""De Profundis"", Oscar Wilde writes from prison about his life regrets, stating ""I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease. I amused myself with being a flaneur, a dandy, a man of fashion. I surrounded myself with the smaller natures and the meaner"
"in five quarto volumes. It was cast in the form of a romantic epic poem, the subject being the life and times of King Alfred. He did not live to finish the work, but he left money for printing a new edition, and the work of supervising it was undertaken by his friend Robert Roscoe. Roscoe completed the poem, adding 2,585 lines. The entire work contains more than 130,000 lines. John Fitchett (poet) John Fitchett (21 September 1776 – 20 October 1838) was an English poet. Fitchett was the son of a wine merchant at Liverpool. His parents both died"
"Salut d'Amour Salut d'Amour (""Liebesgruß""), Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano. Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was romantically involved with Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it """"Liebesgruss"""" ('Love's Greeting') because of Miss Roberts' fluency in German. On their engagement she had already presented him with a poem """"The Wind at Dawn"""" which he set to music and, when he returned home to London on 22 September from a holiday at the house of his friend Dr. Charles Buck in Settle, he gave her"
"A good example of this is Eliot's quote from the 1912 popular song ""The Shakespearian Rag"" by lyricists Herman Ruby and Gene Buck. There were also a number of lowbrow references in the opening section of Eliot's original manuscript (when the poem was entitled ""He Do The Police in Different Voices""), but they were removed from the final draft after Eliot cut this original opening section. The style of the work in part grows out of Eliot's interest in exploring the possibilities of dramatic monologue. This interest dates back at least as far as ""The Love Song of J. Alfred"
"masks of ""commedia dell'arte"", Pierrot now knew no national boundaries. Thanks to the international gregariousness of Modernism, he would soon be found everywhere. Pierrot played a seminal role in the emergence of Modernism in the arts. He was a key figure in every art-form except architecture. With respect to poetry, T. S. Eliot's ""breakthrough work"", ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" (1915), owed its existence to the poems of Jules Laforgue, whose """"ton 'pierrot'"""" informed all of Eliot's early poetry. (Laforgue, he said, ""was the first to teach me how to speak, to teach me the poetic possibilities of"
"The Lady of Shalott ""The Lady of Shalott"" is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). It tells the story of a young noble woman imprisoned in a tower on an island near Camelot. She can only watch the outside world through a mirror and must weave what she sees. She has heard that if she looks at Camelot directly, she will be cursed. One of the poet's best-known works, its vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism inspired many painters, especially the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. Like his other early poems – ""Sir Lancelot and Queen"
"Un dì, felice, eterea ""Un dì, felice, eterea"" (""One day, happy and ethereal"") is a duet from the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""La traviata"". It is sung by the male and female protagonists of the opera, Alfredo (a tenor) and Violetta (a soprano). The main melody of the duet, which is very famous in its own right, is also an important musical theme throughout the opera. <poem lang=""fr"" style=""float:left;"">Alfredo Un dì, felice, eterea, Mi balenaste innante, E da quel dì tremante"" Vissi d'ignoto amor. Di quell'amor, quell'amor ch'è palpito Dell'universo, Dell'universo intero, Misterioso, Misterioso altero, Croce, croce e"
"in his ""Aphrodite"", Cambridge, 1948); and by Allen Tate (1947; see his ""Collected Poems""). The poem has appealed to 20th-century composers and has been set to music by Frederic Austin for chorus and orchestra (first performance, Leeds Festival, 1931); by Timothy Mather Spelman, for soprano and baritone solo, chorus and orchestra (1931); by Virgil Thomson as ""The Feast of Love"", for baritone and chamber orchestra, text translated by himself (1964); and by George Lloyd for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra (1980). T. S. Eliot referenced the poem in the 429th line of his modernist work The Waste Land as, """"Quando"
"A Song for Simeon ""A Song for Simeon"" is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the ""Ariel poems"" series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer. ""A Song for Simeon"" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poems, including ""A Song for Simeon"", were later published in both the 1936 and 1963 editions of Eliot's collected poems. In 1927, Eliot had converted to Anglo-Catholicism and his poetry, starting"
"Preludes (poem) ""Preludes"" is a poem by T. S. Eliot, composed between 1910 and 1911. It is in turns literal and impressionistic, exploring the sordid and solitary existences of the spiritually moiled as they play out against the backdrop of the drab modern city. In essence, it is four poems rather than one, and it is duly labelled as such. Composed over the course of four years in France and the United States, it comes to just 54 lines. Its four parts are uneven, irregular and written in free verse symptomatic of the speaker's stream of consciousness. Part I is"
"Journey of the Magi Journey of the Magi is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed for a series of 38 pamphlets by several authors collectively titled ""Ariel poems"" and released by British publishing house Faber and Gwyer (later, Faber and Faber). Published in August 1927, ""Journey of the Magi"" was the eighth in the series and was accompanied by illustrations drawn by American-born avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954). The poems, including ""Journey of the Magi"", were later published in both editions of Eliot's collected"
"between 1808 and 1834, in five quarto volumes. It was cast in the form of a romantic epic poem, the subject being the life and times of King Alfred, including, in addition to a biography of Alfred, an epitome of the antiquities, topography, religion, and civil and religious condition of the country. He rewrote part of the work, but did not live to finish it. He left money for printing a new edition, and the work of supervising it was undertaken by his pupil, clerk, and friend, Robert Roscoe [q. v.] (son of William Roscoe of Liverpool), who completed the"
"King Alfred (poem) King Alfred is an epic poem by John Fitchett (died 1838) and completed by Robert Roscoe, published in 1841 and 1842. The poem narrates—in dramatic terms—King Alfred's ongoing battles against the Danes. Supernatural powers intervene to aid both sides: the Archangel Michael and his hosts—on behalf of the English—and Lucifer and his hosts—on behalf of the Danes. The great work of John Fitchett's life was one which occupied his leisure hours for forty years, and in the composition of which he bestowed unwearied industry and acute research. It was printed at Warrington for private circulation at intervals"
"1, Canto 1 with various English translations is given in the following table Orlando Furioso Orlando Furioso (; ""The Frenzy of Orlando"", more literally ""Raging Roland"") is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532. ""Orlando Furioso"" is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance ""Orlando Innamorato"" (""Orlando in Love"", published posthumously in 1495). In its historical setting and characters, it shares some features with the Old French ""Chanson de Roland"" of the"
"its original German libretto on 17 September 2014, in Prague. The plot of Alfred transpires during wartime between the English and the Danes, sometime during the Middle Ages. It follows the hero, Alfred, on his quest to rescue his love Alvina from the grasp of the Danish leader Harald, and to lead the English to victory. The opera lasts for about 140 minutes. Act 1 – The Camp of the Danes: The opera opens to the Danish camp as they prepare to celebrate a victory over the English. Gothron sits apart from the crowd, unsettled-the night before he dreamed he"
"to permit him to ""depart in peace"" (). The poem's narrative echoes the text of the , a liturgical prayer for Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes, Dante Alighieri and St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of anti-Semitism on Eliot's part. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including ""The Love"
"with him. Even as she is falling, she does not know who he is until he tells her his name. A translation into English by Alan D. Corré is available on Kindle; it includes the French text. Éloa, ou La sœur des anges Éloa, ou La sœur des anges (""Éloa, or the Sister of the Angels""), published in 1824 (see 1824 in poetry), is Alfred de Vigny's epic tripartite philosophic poem of Eloa, an innocent angel who falls in love with a stranger at odds with God. It is made clear that the stranger is Lucifer. He falls in love"
"For eleven years, from 1946 to 1957, he shared a house with his close friend the poet T. S. Eliot, gathering and archiving Eliot's papers and styling himself ""Keeper of the Eliot Archive"". Eliot's book of verse called ""Poems Written in Early Youth"" was compiled and edited by Hayward. With Eliot's help he emended the poems from ""The Harvard Advocate"" and added the poems from Eliot's days at St. Louis' Smith Academy, plus the previously unpublished ""The Death of Saint Narcissus"". This friendship was strained by Eliot's unexpected marriage in January 1957 to his secretary Esmé Valerie Fletcher. To a"
"Whispers of Immortality ""Whispers of Immortality"" is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Written sometime between 1915 and 1918, the poem was published originally in the September issue of the ""Little Review"" and first collected in June 1919 in a volume entitled ""Poems"" published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press. It is one of the quatrain poems, a mode that Eliot had adapted from the mid-19th-century French poet Theophile Gautier. The title is a fainter parody of William Wordsworth's title of the poem, """". The poem was developed in two sections; each contains four stanzas and each stanza contains"
"Orlando Furioso Orlando Furioso (; ""The Frenzy of Orlando"", more literally ""Raging Roland"") is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532. ""Orlando Furioso"" is a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished romance ""Orlando Innamorato"" (""Orlando in Love"", published posthumously in 1495). In its historical setting and characters, it shares some features with the Old French ""Chanson de Roland"" of the eleventh century, which tells of the death of Roland. The story is also"
"Orlando Innamorato Orlando Innamorato (; known in English as ""Orlando in Love""; in Italian titled ""Orlando innamorato"" as the ""I"" is never capitalized) is an epic poem written by the Italian Renaissance author Matteo Maria Boiardo. The poem is a romance concerning the heroic knight Orlando (Roland). It was published between 1483 (first two books) and 1495 (third book published separately, first complete edition). To material largely quarried from the Carolingian and Arthurian cycles, Boiardo added a superstructure of his own making. As the plot is not woven around a single pivotal action, the inextricable maze of most cunningly contrived"
"Eulalie ""Eulalie,"" or ""Eulalie — A Song,"" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the July 1845 issue of """" and reprinted shortly thereafter in the August 9, 1845 issue of the ""Broadway Journal"". The poem is a bridal song about a man who overcomes his sadness by marrying the beautiful Eulalie. The woman's love here has a transformative effect on the narrator, taking him from a ""world of moan"" to one of happiness. The poem uses Poe's frequent theme of ""the death of a beautiful woman,"" which he considered to be ""the most poetical topic in"
"task by adding 2,585 lines, the entire work containing more than 131,000 lines. This prodigious monument was published by Pickering in 1841–2, in six volumes, 8vo, with the title of 'King Alfred, a Poem.' King Alfred (poem) King Alfred is an epic poem by John Fitchett (died 1838) and completed by Robert Roscoe, published in 1841 and 1842. The poem narrates—in dramatic terms—King Alfred's ongoing battles against the Danes. Supernatural powers intervene to aid both sides: the Archangel Michael and his hosts—on behalf of the English—and Lucifer and his hosts—on behalf of the Danes. The great work of John Fitchett's"
"coat of arms, it cost 5 Fr per issue, or 50 Fr for a twelve-month subscription. Although financially unsuccessful, it was an important part of the literary scene of the Twenties and was ""a great European light"", helping launch several writers' careers. Typically, about a hundred pages per issue, it was ""French in language, but international in spirit"" and drew heavily on the circle of writers frequenting her shop. The first edition contained a French-language translation (prepared jointly by Monnier and Beach) of T. S. Eliot's poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (May 1925). Other issues included an"
"The Dry Salvages The Dry Salvages is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"" and marks the beginning of when the series was consciously being formed as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain, an event that threatened him while giving lectures in the area. The title comes from the name of a rock formation near a town he spent time at as a child, which reflects Eliot's references to his own past throughout the poem. The poem discusses the nature of time and what humanity's place"
"121–123). Beginning in the 1950s, scholars and critics starting with John Peter began to question whether Eliot's poem were an elegy to ""a male friend."" English poet and Eliot biographer Stephen Spender, who Eliot published for Faber & Faber in the 1920s, speculated it was an elegy, perhaps to Jean Jules Verdenal (1890–1915), a French medical student with literary inclinations who died in 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign, according to Miller. Eliot spent considerable amounts of time with Verdenal in exploring Paris and the surrounding area in 1910 and 1911, and the two corresponded for several years after their parting."
"""Little Gidding"" Eliot achieved ""that for which he envies Dante—namely, a poetry of belief, in which belief and words are one, and in which the thought cannot be prized free from the controlled and beautiful language"". Little Gidding (poem) Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem of T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"", a series of poems that discuss time, perspective, humanity, and salvation. It was first published in September 1942 after being delayed for over a year because of the air-raids on Great Britain during World War II and Eliot's declining health. The title refers to a small Anglican"
"S. Eliot dealt with the themes of desire and homoeroticism in his poetry, prose and drama. Other poems on the theme of desire include John Donne's poem ""To His Mistress Going to Bed"", Carol Ann Duffy's longings in ""Warming Her Pearls""; Ted Hughes' ""Lovesong"" about the savage intensity of desire; and Wendy Cope's humorous poem ""Song"". Philippe Borgeaud's novels analyse how emotions such as erotic desire and seduction are connected to fear and wrath by examining cases where people are worried about issues of impurity, sin, and shame. Just as desire is central to the written fiction genre of romance,"
"The Despairing Lover The Despairing Lover is an English broadside ballad from the late-17th century, written by Edward Ford. It is about a man who loses his lover and vows to kill himself, until she saves him by returning at the end of the ballad. It is paired with ""A Constant and Kind Maid"", in which the woman becomes the man's constant and loving wife. Sung to the tune of ""Fortune My Foe"" or ""Aim Not Too High"", though according to William Chappell there is some controversy over the compatibility of these tunes. Copies of the broadside can be found"
"Idylls of the King Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom. The whole work recounts Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death at the hands of the traitor Mordred. Individual poems detail the deeds of various knights, including"