Prufrock Part 1: T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | ep. 153
T.S. Eliot was 22 when he drafted it, 26 when Ezra Pound finally strong-armed it into print, and the first edition took five years to sell 500 copies. In this episode, we walk "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from that etherized evening sky down to the ragged claws—Dante's epigraph, the yellow fog that's a cat, the coffee spoons, and the overwhelming question nobody ever asks.
At the Table: Katie Dozier, Timothy Green, Brian O'Sullivan, Dick Westheimer, and Joe Barca.
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