Blythe, Hal, and Charlie Sweet. "Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" The Explicator Volume 52, number 3, Spring 1994, p. 170.

It would have seemed that by the time this was written all that needed to be said about the poem would have been covered, but these authors bring to light new information about different interpretations and       possible sources for the "ragged claws" line.

Bradbury, Malcom. The Modern World: Ten Great Writers. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1988.

Eliot is one of the great writers given his own chapter in this book, of course, but just as interesting is the introduction, which puts these ten writers (including Ibsen, Proust, Pirendello and Kafka) into perspective of one another like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Symons, Julian. Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature 1912-1939. New York: Random House, 1987.

The author is a well-known...