"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock '', commonly known as "Prufrock '', is the first professionally published poem by American - born, British poet T.S. Eliot (1888 -- 1965). Eliot began writing "Prufrock '' in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885 -- 1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve - poem pamphlet (or chapbook) titled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917. At the time of its publication, Prufrock was considered outlandish, but is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th - century Romantic verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism.
who wrote the lovesong of j alfred prufrock
T.S. Eliot