Thanks! It's from this quote by the poet Allen Tate, “The two first lines of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ were the first gun of the twentieth century-revolution: the young Tom Eliot pulled the lanyard and quietly went back to his desk in a London bank. But it was a shot heard round the world.”
From the preface of his "Essays of Four Decades". It's a terribly obscure reference. In hindsight, I probably should have put it in with the poem.
Marvelous! What's the connection in the title, Nik?
Thanks! It's from this quote by the poet Allen Tate, “The two first lines of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ were the first gun of the twentieth century-revolution: the young Tom Eliot pulled the lanyard and quietly went back to his desk in a London bank. But it was a shot heard round the world.”
From the preface of his "Essays of Four Decades". It's a terribly obscure reference. In hindsight, I probably should have put it in with the poem.