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Monster Essays - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism and T.S. Eliot
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism and T.S. Eliot
Surrealism is a dangerous word to use about the poet, playwright
and critic T.S. Eliot, and certainly with his first major work, "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ". Eliot wrote the poem, after all, years before
Andre Breton and his compatriots began defining and practicing "surrealism"
proper. Andre Breton published his first "Manifesto of Surrealism" in 1924,
seven years after Eliot's publication of "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock". It was this manifesto which defined the movement in
philosoph....
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