• "My madness singing" : the specter of syphilis in Prufrock's Love Song 

    Barnhardt, Bradford (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
    Concluding paragraph: "This unpleasant conclusion results from Prufrock's night in the "Pervigilium," since his encounters with ambiguous women and his fears of venereal disease disturb him so much that they distance him ...