Author Archives: PBerggren

This phrase is from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, published in 1922, when jazz was all the rage.  Lines from Shakespeare’s plays resound like musical themes, bumping up against other voices and motifs throughout the poem.  In our blog, we will show why, as The Waste Land declares, that Shakespeherian rag is both “elegant” and “intelligent,” as we learn to HEAR the melodies that his words make and his characters embody.