On internal allusions in Bob Dylan’s lyrics.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
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.
Marx’s Aeschylus
On Marx reading Aeschylus (in Greek!).
Edward Gibbon and the Decline of the Pre-Christian Empire
On Gibbon and the causes of decline.