The figure of zeugma in Vergil’s AENEID and Bob Dylan’s “Isis.”
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
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.
Allusion without End (3)
One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.
Luther’s “On the Freedom of a Christian,” Versified
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...
“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.