Exploring The Waste Land
An allusion page linked from The Waste Land, Part III, line 198

Eliot's Sweeney poems

Eliot's use of Sweeney is an allusion to a character created by him and used in some of his earlier poems (and later in a verse play Sweeney Agonistes.)

You can read the Sweeney poems at this site or, using the external links below, visit another website to read annotated versions of the poems.

  1. Sweeney Erect
  2. Sweeney among the Nightingales
  3. Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

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Links:

L 242 - Annotated Sweeney Erect
At the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line website
L 243 - Annotated Sweeney among the Nightingales
At the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line website
L 244 - Annotated Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
At the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line website

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