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Do You Mr Jones? : Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors, EPUB eBook

Do You Mr Jones? : Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors EPUB

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In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition . This collection of essays by leading poets and critics with a new foreword by Will Self examines Dylan s poetic genius, as well as his astounding cultural influence over the decades.

From Orpheus to Faiz, song and poetry have been closely linked. Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition Salman Rushdie

The most significant Western popular artist in any form or medium of the past sixty years Will Self

For fifty and some years he has bent, coaxed, teased and persuaded words into lyric and narrative shapes that are at once extraordinary and inevitable Andrew Motion

His haunting music and lyrics have always seemed, in the deepest sense, literary Joyce Carol Oates

There is something inevitable about Bob Dylan A storyteller pulling out all the stops metaphor, allegory, repetition, precise detail His virtue is in his style, his attitude, his disposition to the world Simon Armitage

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