On poetic inspiration and transmigration in Homer, Ennius, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
“Send Carter, Bob, and Zevon”: When Mohammed’s Radio Played a Dylan Tune
On a Dylan allusion in the live version of Warren Zevon’s “Mohammed’s Radio.”
“Blood on the Tracks”: Some Intra-Dylan Allusions
On internal allusions in Bob Dylan’s lyrics.
Housman, Williams, Dylan: On Poetic Diction
Speaking poetically in the works of A.E. Housman, Hank Williams, and Bob Dylan.
Fact and Fiction in Authorial Personae: Bob Dylan and Nathaniel Hawthorne
On a possible allusion of Bob Dylan to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“St. Herman’s Church”: Melville in Dylan
On Bob Dylan and MOBY-DICK.
Conan the Dionysian?
On Conan the Barbarian and Euripides.
“‘But Tacitus—I Hate Tacitus”: Melville against Classical Education?
On an Ovidian allusion in Melville’s last novel.
Luther’s Lucretius (1)
On a citation of Lucretius by Martin Luther.
Paul as Pentheus? (Updated)
On Euripides in the Acts of the Apostles.