"I Contain Multitudes" is the opening track on Bob Dylan's 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways. The title is an allusion to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself, 51": The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.And proceed to fill my next fold of the future....
Bob Dylan
Dylan’s “False Prophet” and Wilder’s Alcestiad: A Supposal
Does Bob Dylan read Thornton Wilder?
Dylan’s Aristotle, Dylan’s Melanchthon?
Speculation on the classical, biblical, and theological sources of a line in “Absolutely Sweet Marie.”
Dylan’s Auden on the Holy Innocents?
A possible allusion to Auden in Dylan’s “Man of Peace.”
A.M. Juster’s Scandinavian Homesick Blues
On a Bob Dylan parody by A.M. Juster.
Folk Music: A Biography of Bob Dylan in Seven Songs and The Philosophy of Modern Song: A Review
Eric Hutchinson on the mark Bob Dylan’s music has left on the American imagination
“‘Equality,’ I Spoke the Word as if a Wedding Vow”: Solzhenitsyn, Dylan, and Liberalism’s Empty Signs
One of the dangers of contemporary liberalism is that its totalitarian tendencies trade on vague sentiments and slogans--mental gestures that, even if they are not irritable (as Lionel Trilling said of conservativism), are certainly irritating, not to mention...
Bob Dylan: Infidels
On Bob Dylan’s Infidels.