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When was Prufrock and Other Observations published?

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T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study. — T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot working on his play *The Cocktail Party* in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, 1948. The letters of the alphabet in his diagram represent characters in the play. The Greek letters represent characters yet to be invented.

Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917. This volume marked a significant milestone in literature, as it is often used to date the maturity of the 20th-century poetic revolution. While the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" had previously appeared in Poetry magazine in 1915, its inclusion in this 1917 collection solidified T.S. Eliot's role as a leading figure in Modernism.12