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en-wikipedia-org-7616		Sweeney Agonistes - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1879	239	75	The scenes are frequently performed together as a one-act play.[1] Sweeney Agonistes is currently available in print in Eliot's Collected Poems: 1909–1962 listed under his "Unfinished Poems" with the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" part of the play's original title removed. Bennett noted that Eliot wanted "to write a drama of modern life (furnished flat sort of people) in a rhythmic prose 'perhaps with centain things in it accentuated by drum-beats.'"[2] Roby also points out that the style of the play is frequently associated with the rhythm of jazz music as well as the "rhythm of the common speech of his time." [2] Other critics, like Marjorie Lightfoot, associated the play with the "conventions of music-hall comedy," and she notes that Eliot never wrote another play with the musical rhythms of Sweeney.[3] S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes," David Galef writes, "Through the play's Greek forms,	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7616.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7616.txt