Study Guide ... The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Study Guide… is a collection of notes that introduce students – and not only students – to poems, novels or plays written in English. They facilitate learning supplying the most important information about literary works and so fostering their comprehension.

The first part of the study guide of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock briefly describes the historical, social and literary background of the period in which the book was written and supplies some biographical notes about the author, T. S. Eliot. The second part focuses on the work and deals with sources, setting, characters, commentary, critical approach,references, quotations in cinematographic or theatrical adaptations and further notes.