In this course, get an introduction to T. S. Eliot’s most famous modernist poems, “Prufrock” and “The Waste Land.” “The Waste Land” is arguably the most important poem in English in the 20th century. Everyone in “the literary game” responded to it in one way or another. Connections are found in The Great Gatsby, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and even Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was Eliot’s first major publication and is widely considered to be the first masterpiece of modernism in English. His poetry was a radical departure from the restrictions of established forms and diction at the time.