It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal
, who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante
's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J...
Friends, Associates
T. S. Eliot
In Paris he made his first literary friendships, with Alain-Fournier
and Jean Verdenal
.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.