<P> "Traces of Kipling appear in my own mature verse where no diligent scholarly sleuth has yet observed them, but which I am myself prepared to disclose . I once wrote a poem called "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": I am convinced that it would never have been called "Love Song" but for a title of Kipling's that stuck obstinately in my head: "The Love Song of Har Dyal ." </P> <P> However, the origin of the name Prufrock is not certain, and Eliot never remarked on its origin other than to claim he was unsure of how he came upon the name . Many scholars and indeed Eliot himself have pointed towards the autobiographical elements in the character of Prufrock, and Eliot at the time of writing the poem was in the habit of rendering his name as "T. Stearns Eliot," very similar in form to that of J. Alfred Prufrock . It is suggested that the name "Prufrock" came from Eliot's youth in St. Louis, Missouri, where the Prufrock - Litton Company, a large furniture store, occupied one city block downtown at 420--422 North Fourth Street . In a 1950 letter, Eliot said, "I did not have, at the time of writing the poem, and have not yet recovered, any recollection of having acquired this name in any way, but I think that it must be assumed that I did, and that the memory has been obliterated ." </P> <P> The draft version of the poem's epigraph comes from Dante's Purgatorio (XXVI, 147--148): </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <Dl> <Dd>' sovegna vos a temps de ma dolor' . </Dd> <Dd> Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina . </Dd> </Dl> </Td> <Td> <Dl> <Dd>' be mindful in due time of my pain' . </Dd> <Dd> Then dived he back into that fire which refines them . </Dd> </Dl> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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