9/15/2023 0 Comments Bob dylan beyond a shadow of doubt![]() – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space.Ĭome here you, Set said in his John Wayne voice. Thus the casket is memory of what is immemorial. If there are jewels and precious stones in the casket, it is the past, a long past, a past that goes back through generations, that will set the poet romancing … Here the past, the present and a future are condensed. We see it open chests, or condense cosmic wealth in a slender casket. It gathers the universe together around and in an object. The poet lives in a daydream that is awake, but above all, his daydream remains in the world, facing worldly things. ![]() ![]() The texts are understood as parallel articulations of their authors’ analogous archaeological poetics, which foreground their shared responses to intertextuality and colonial encounter. Rereading Dylan and Jacques Levy’s southwestern quest ballad “Isis” ( Desire, 1976) alongside the “Isis Church” episode in The Faerie Queene (1596), it argues that attention to the song’s resonances with Edmund Spenser’s reworking of the Egyptian Isis Osiris myth sheds light on how both texts engage and subvert the romance mode to theorize historical mimesis and allusion. While comparisons between Bob Dylan and Shakespeare are commonplace, and Dylan’s lyrics have been profitably read alongside Petrarch, Rimbaud, and others in recent work, this article advances the first sustained analysis of potential Spenserian echoes in Dylan’s oeuvre. Bob Dylan’s date with The Faerie Queene (1596)īY Harriet Archer, University of St Andrews
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