T. S. Eliot has taught me how to write, and more recently, also, how to be a Christian. This unfinished verse play I turn to a lot. Lines like “She’s got her feet in mustard and water,” and “I don’t like eggs; I’ve never liked eggs; and I don’t like life on your crocodile isle.”

First published in the New Criterion, October 1926 and January 1927 and collected as Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama, Faber, 1932. Now available in The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I, Faber, 2015)