In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), a poem T.S. Eliot had drafted by the age of 23, he adopted the voice of a weary middle-aged man, or indeed a damned soul from Dante’s Inferno. The balding Prufrock finds in an appointment for tea with some fashionable ladies the occasion for existential suffering.… Continue Reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock