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Dylan's Visions of Sin, EPUB eBook

Dylan's Visions of Sin EPUB

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'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'Two quotes from Dylan himself that underline the importance of this book.

Dylanology thrives. There is no shortage of books about him and many of them will be dusted off for his 70th birthday.

This one, however, stands on its own both for its unusual approach and for the virtuosity of its execution. Ricks's scheme, aptly, is to examine Dylan's songs through the biblical concepts of the seven deadly Sins, the four Virtues, and the three Heavenly Graces.

He carries it off with panache. Ricks may be the most eminent literary critic of his generation but nobody should feel his book is one of earnest, unapproachable exegesis, on the contrary it has a flamboyance, almost effervescence about it that is captivating.

Ricks boldly and successfully judges Dylan as a poet not a lyricist and in his tour-de-force makes endless illuminating comparisons with canonical writers such as Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins and Larkins.

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