Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors
English
By (author): Neil Corcoran
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 Dylans 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