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  <title><![CDATA[Prufrock and Other Observations]]></title>
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  <default_description>Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1972</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[T S Eliot's first pamphlet of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations was incessantly hyped before publication by Ezra Pound, the one time modernist poet and erstwhile fascist campaigner during the Second World War, although that shouldn't be used as a stick to beat Eliot, even if there were many do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41605583">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 10 01:07:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is an odd thing, but recently I read someone on this site say that they had always thought Eliot was English and was a bit surprised to find out that he was actually an American.  Now, I’ve always thought of Prufrock as being English, but the odd thing is that now that I think about why I shoul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59117616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="683102">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 11 21:36:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 11 21:45:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy of this book I stole from my high school library.<br/><br/>In my freshman poetry class, we were told to memorize a poem of at least 10 lines.  I told my teacher that this was a pointless assignment and that rote memorization doesn't teach anything, but honestly I was just lazy and hated th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/683102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5188805">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jodi Lu]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 27 14:55:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[oh, pick me--i part my hair behind--me, me!!]]></body>
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    <review id="77784747">
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 14 15:54:19 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Disclaimer: that five stars is based on the first six poems, which are so perfect (gorgeous sonics, the most resonant use of chimney-pots and geraniums. Also, &quot;as if the world gave up / the secret of its skeleton&quot;) that I can't bear to give them any less. But then there's the rest. I assum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77784747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43439421">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit that T.S. Eliot confuses me and I have a difficult time understanding his poetry. Saying that, I do love the way he uses the words. Though I may not fully understand what he is saying, the image reception is pretty clear.<br/><br/>I love this passage from 'Rhapsody on a Windy Night':<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43439421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56702568">
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    <body><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot is quite simply one of the best poets ever. HIs allusions are, at times obscure and difficult to discover and recognize, but his way with words is amazing.]]></body>
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    <review id="5187242">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite poems of all times...I used to read it with my juniors. They were always so intimidated by it at first, so we'd read it just to read it -- and mostly I'd read it to them, the way a poem is supposed to be read. And then we'd just start talking about bits and pieces that we ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5187242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41699385">
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 02:27:52 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loses a point for veering to pomposity 'n' misogyny.<br/><br/>*awaits Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation*<br/><br/>*eats a peach*]]></body>
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    <review id="582352">
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    <name><![CDATA[Josh]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot's poetry is absolutely beautiful. I wasn't really a poetry reader when I first picked this book up, but after reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I wanted to find more beautiful, profound poetry like Eliot's to help me understand myself and life in general. This collection came at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/582352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32760967">
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 13 06:07:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have certainly discovered a couple new favorites amongst these early poems of T.S. Eliot. How it is that I've not read much of T.S. Eliot? I'm not quite sure. I assure you, I do look forward to reading much, much more!]]></body>
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    <review id="13794854">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 28 02:37:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahh, Prufrock. An early discovery from the &quot;Great Classics&quot; collection of poetry on my parents' shelf. One of my most favorite poems of all time.]]></body>
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    <review id="14621569">
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    <body><![CDATA[All poetry should be like this.<br/><br/>Read when you can't sleep and are feeling a bit hopeless.]]></body>
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    <review id="19453227">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is one of my favorite poems. It is a 5 star poem.]]></body>
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