n after arriving in England, he fell in love and married a woman with whom he was quickly unhappy. She died fairly young, and Eliot remarried many years later and was finally happy. Eliot was a very private man who forbade a biography to be created about him, so the lack of information is justifiable. However, we can deduce many things from his poetry from the small amount of information we have about his life.
             T.S. Eliot's work is full of references to Dante, Shakespeare, The Bible, and other famous writers and works. Eliot's famous poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, contains references to both of these authors, as well as The Bible. Prufrock, the main character in the poem, is compared with Hamlet, probably William Shakespeare's most famous character. Prufrock is crippled by indecisiveness, and Shakespeare's hero, Hamlet, suffers from the same malady. Prufrock also refers to himself as "an attendant lord" (line 114), creating the feeling for the reader that he has an inferiority complex. Prufrock's hesitati
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