On a possible allusion of Bob Dylan to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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“St. Herman’s Church”: Melville in Dylan
On Bob Dylan and MOBY-DICK.
“I Contain Multitudes”: The Greek Dylan
"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....
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.