Tag: allusion

A New Intertext in the Unreal City?: Eliot and Apollonius

E.J. Hutchinson — October 22, 2025

A New Intertext in the Unreal City?: Eliot and Apollonius

Does Eliot allude to Apollonius of Rhodes in "The Waste Land"?

“Mature Poets Steal”?: Dylan and Eliot (Updated)

E.J. Hutchinson — October 1, 2025

“Mature Poets Steal”?: Dylan and Eliot (Updated)

On Bob Dylan as a reader of T.S. Eliot.

Literary Contamination in “Crossing the Rubicon”: Homer in Bob Dylan, Again

E.J. Hutchinson — September 15, 2025

Literary Contamination in “Crossing the Rubicon”: Homer in Bob Dylan, Again

More allusivity in Bob Dylan, this time in "Crossing the Rubicon."

Allusion in Bob Dylan’s “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)”

E.J. Hutchinson — September 9, 2025

Allusion in Bob Dylan’s “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)”

Some allusions in Bob Dylan's "Tight Connection to My Heart" (Empire Burlesque, 1985).

A New (?) Allusion (?) in “Narrow Way”:  Dylan and Homer, Again

E.J. Hutchinson — September 4, 2025

A New (?) Allusion (?) in “Narrow Way”: Dylan and Homer, Again

More on Homer in Dylan.

Titus Andronicus in the Waste Land

E.J. Hutchinson — August 14, 2025

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)

E.J. Hutchinson — July 16, 2025

Allusion without End (3)

One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.

Allusion without End (2)

E.J. Hutchinson — July 1, 2025

Allusion without End (2)

Vergil (and Ovid?) in Longfellow.

Tennyson’s Ulysses as Shakespeare’s Hamlet? (Edited)

E.J. Hutchinson — June 26, 2025

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,…

Allusion without End

E.J. Hutchinson — June 17, 2025

Allusion without End

Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.