T. S. Eliot
Lesson plans for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and other works

|Biography and Background| |"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"| |Murder in the Cathedral| |The Waste Land|

Biography and Background

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948
Photo, presentation speech, banquet speech, and related links.

T. S. Eliot
Bibliography and related links

T. S. Eliot
Biography and timeline, criticism, and links to poems.

"The Love Song of J. Afred Prufrock"

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Hypertext of the poem.

Parsing bad prose, poetry
This lesson from CNNfyi asks students to compare the opening of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with a parody. They develop criteria for "good" and "bad" literature.

Repeat After Us
Audio file of a reading of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." A good site for LD students, ELL students, and for those who read well and might like to record and contribute. Files are in alphabetical order by poet; scroll down.

Murder in the Cathedral

Murder in the Cathedral
Background, reading questions, quotations, and exam questions.

Murder in the Cathedral
This 16-page document addresses 100 vocabulary words drawn from the play. Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application required for access.

Murder in the Cathedral
Historical background to the play.

The Waste Land

The Waste Land
A hypertext version of the poem.