More on Homer in Dylan.
allusion
Titus Andronicus in the Waste Land
On T.S. Eliot’s creative use of a play he hated in his most famous poem.
Allusion without End (3)
One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.
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...
Allusion without End
Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.
“Thunder on the Mountain”: An Addendum on “Tombstone”
An allusion to “Tombstone” in “Thunder on the Mountain”?
“Blood on the Tracks”: Some Intra-Dylan Allusions
On internal allusions in Bob Dylan’s lyrics.
Dylan’s Auden on the Holy Innocents?
A possible allusion to Auden in Dylan’s “Man of Peace.”