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467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)

The History of Literature

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Every Party Likes the Michigan Rag

"Shakespearean rag" was a song came out in 1912. Eliot twists this a bit, and his spelling is intentional. It's the syncopation of ragtime music. "Every party likes the Michigan rag," he says.

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