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Songs With a Life of Their Own
The poems of Bob Dylan
BY LOIS WADSWORTH

There are plenty of crackpot books out there about rock legends, but this isn't one of them. Literary critic and prolific writer Christopher Ricks, the Oxford professor of poetry since September 2005, does to Dylan what he's done in previous books to Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, Keats and Milton: He reads his poems very closely. [read more]

 






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