For a time, one of the 20th century’s greatest storytellers found rest in the greatest story ever told.
Bob Dylan
From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Fall 2024
Senior Editor Rhys Lavetry introduces the Fall 2024 edition of Ad Fontes.
“Beyond the Sea”: Darin and Stevens in Key West
On Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, and Wallace Stevens.
The Classical Dylan, Again
In "Narrow Way," on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them allYesterday I could have thrown them all in the seaToday, even one may be too much for me The bolded line...
“Thunder on the Mountain”: An Addendum on “Tombstone”
An allusion to “Tombstone” in “Thunder on the Mountain”?
Holly as Homer, Dylan as Ennius: The Rock and Roll Singer as Epic Bard
On poetic inspiration and transmigration in Homer, Ennius, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan.
“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.