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

The History of Literature

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The Shakespearean Rag

Robert Browning quoted lines from a poem called Sordello by James Joyce. The poet used them as his springboard to recite some of his own work. In the song, Michigan J. Frog sings "the Shakespearean rag" But you don't need to know that song or have heard it to find something worthwhile and Elliot's line.

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