Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist  movement. ... Alfred Prufrock," " (1915), the seminal "The Waste Land" (1922), and the later "Four Quartets" (1943), which Eliot considered his masterpiece "has made him the primary figure of modernist poetry both for his peers and for subsequent generations." ... Alfred Prufrock,"" commonly known as "Prufrock," written mostly when Eliot was only twenty-two, was pioneering in its use of interior monologue, in its fragmented structure, and in its startling figurative language ("Let us go then, you and I, When ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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