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...
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“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.
“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?