Product Description

Prufrock and Other Observations is a publication of short stories by T. S. Eliot. This publication features twelve classic works by T. S. Eliot including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Portrait of a Lady, Preludes and Rhapsody on a Windy Night. This is an excllent title for those who are fans of the writings of T. S. Eliot, or people who are just starting to discover his works.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1673676 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 40 pages

Customer Reviews

Please fix the spacing
I don't get it: why can't Kindle editions maintain the original line structure and spacing? Running everything together and sort of randomly spacing here and there ruins the cadence and readability of the poem.

Find a better edition
If you are looking for the title poem, or just some poems by Eliot, avoid this edition. There are 28 pages of print and ten completely blank pages beyond that, an obvious attempt to pad an already slim edition. Besides the blank pages ... the dimensions (height, width) are oversized, leaving way too much blank space in the pages with print. This is simply discraceful. Find these same poems in an edition by a responsible publisher.

I can't believe no one's reviewed this...
I hope that no one's reviewed this because they just didn't think to, and not because they've never read it, because that would make me sad.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an ode to being on the outside, looking in, and not being sure about what you see there. Prufrock (the narrator of the poem) thinks himself a fool, a prince, a messenger, he contemplates an overwhelming question, he dares to eat a peach, and part his hair from behind, and even when he grows old (and wears the ends of his trousers rolled), he does this all alone.

though the poem opens with an invitation, there is little else in the piece that leads the reader to believe that Prufrock is happy for our company, or even aware of it at all.