T. S. Eliot reads Sweeney Among the Nightingales from slovenly women Watch Video
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Description: Many will argue, and be right, that Sweeney Among the Nightingales is not one of Eliot's better poems; and yet for such an inconsequential one, if you look, there is a lot going on. Every line serves up. Sweeney is a brute, more animal than man; the modern world seems doomed with the likes of Sweeney, just a bunch of brutes being stupid and murdering. It is 1919. We are in a brothel perhaps in Uruguay. Some will argue that prejudice also rears its ugly head; the Irishman Sweeney is slovenly and
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