This installment of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" reintroduces our narrator's fruitless longing for romance, as he is paralyzed by beauty rather than inspired by it.

This installment of T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" takes our narrator right up to the entrance of a social engagement, where he wavers between entering and running away. Faced with an anxiety common to the human experience, Prufrock must decide whether or not he will expose himself to the possible judgement of others.

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we revisit T. S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore one of D. H. Laurence's final works: "Bavarian Gentians."

In this episode of "The Poetry Fix," we pause from the rush of life and experience W. H. Auden's "On This Island."

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore the first part of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Easter, 1916, by William Butler Yeats.

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we read "Spring," by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we read "A Knife of Pure Blade," by Joao Cabral do Melo Neto.

In this episode of The Poetry Fix, we explore Fernando Pessoa's "My Essence is Exhaustion." No, this is not the lament of a tired college student- it's something a little darker.