When was “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” first 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.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," a seminal dramatic monologue by T.S. Eliot, was first published in Poetry magazine in 1915. It was later published in book form in 1917 as part of the collection Prufrock and Other Observations.1