The figure of zeugma in Vergil’s AENEID and Bob Dylan’s “Isis.”
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Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”
On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan.
Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan and the Power of Narrative in a Storyless World
For a time, one of the 20th century’s greatest storytellers found rest in the greatest story ever told.
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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.