{"id":18569,"date":"2025-06-18T06:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2025-06-18T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:32:18","slug":"prufrock-is-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/prufrock-is-110\/","title":{"rendered":"Prufrock is 110"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This June marks 110 years since T. S. Eliot&#8217;s <i>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/i>\u00a0was first published, in the June 1915 edition of Harriet Monroe&#8217;s <i>Poetry<\/i>\u00a0magazine, a milestone in the history of poetry in English. To celebrate this anniversary, the actor Freddie Fox recites the poem (having memorised it) and chats\u00a0with James Lever of Dead Poets Live\u00a0about Prufrock and learning poetry by heart. He also reads two other early poems of Eliot&#8217;s which have a bearing on Prufrock, and two poems by the young Eliot&#8217;s greatest poetical influence, Jules Laforgue.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18569-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prufrock-110-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prufrock-110-1.mp3\">https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Prufrock-110-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This June marks 110 years since T. S. Eliot&#8217;s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u00a0was first published, in the June 1915 edition of Harriet Monroe&#8217;s Poetry\u00a0magazine, a milestone in the history of poetry in English. To celebrate this anniversary, the actor Freddie Fox recites the poem (having memorised it) and chats\u00a0with James Lever of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/prufrock-is-110\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18569"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18609,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions\/18609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}