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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Visualizing Eliot's Prufrock


Not everyone is fan of moving art from from mode or medium to another. Take any Shakespeare or beloved novel made into a film and you will find plenty of criticism.

So, I am sure that there will be critics of a comic book version of a great poems Comic artist Julian Peters (who has already adapted Poe, Keats, and Rimbaud) now is completing a graphic version of T.S. Eliot�s �The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.� He revealed the first nine pages on his site recently.

�Prufrock� begins with an epigraph from Dante's Inferno and the comic translates Eliot's quotes from Greek and other languages.

From Dante's poor tortured soul trapped in the eight circle, we move through Prufrock's own little emotional circle.

via the great Open Culture website, here are some related links
All images � Julian Peters � info@jpeterscomics.com

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