More allusivity in Bob Dylan, this time in “Crossing the Rubicon.”
E.J. Hutchinson
The Magistrate as “Shepherd of the People”
Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
Allusion in Bob Dylan’s “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)”
Some allusions in Bob Dylan’s “Tight Connection to My Heart” (Empire Burlesque, 1985).
A New (?) Allusion (?) in “Narrow Way”: Dylan and Homer, Again
More on Homer in Dylan.
Theodore Beza’s Verses on Peter Martyr Vermigli
A new translation of Beza’s poem on Peter Martyr Vermigli.
In Memoriam: St. John the Baptist
An excerpt from Paulinus of Nola’s miniature epic on St. John the Baptist, on the occasion of the commemoration of St. John’s martyrdom.
Zeugma in Bob Dylan’s “Isis”
The figure of zeugma in Vergil’s AENEID and Bob Dylan’s “Isis.”
Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”
On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan.
Titus Andronicus in the Waste Land
On T.S. Eliot’s creative use of a play he hated in his most famous poem.
The Paradox of Ekphrasis
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.