Metrical Martin Luther.
Allusion without End (2)
Vergil (and Ovid?) in Longfellow.
Tennyson’s Ulysses as Shakespeare’s Hamlet? (Edited)
The sources for Tennyson's great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer's Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet's soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4, just after he has encountered the army of Fortinbras. In self-reproach at his lack of...
Melanchthon’s Commentary on Proverbs: A Review
A new translation of Melanchthon’s commentary on Proverbs disappoints, says E.J. Hutchinson.
“Beyond the Sea”: Darin and Stevens in Key West
On Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, and Wallace Stevens.
Allusion without End
Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.
The Classical Dylan, Again
In "Narrow Way," on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them allYesterday I could have thrown them all in the seaToday, even one may be too much for me The bolded line...
“Thunder on the Mountain”: An Addendum on “Tombstone”
An allusion to “Tombstone” in “Thunder on the Mountain”?
“Let Me Die, Lest I Die”: Martial in St. Augustine?
On a peculiar phrase in St. Augustine’s Confessions.
Rilke and Kafka in Zoshchenko’s “Apollo and Tamara”
On Mikhail Zoshchenko, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Franz Kafka.