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Dylan´s Visions of Sin

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Description for Dylan´s Visions of Sin Paperback. Ricks examines Dylan's songs through the biblical concepts of the seven deadly Sins, the four cardinal Virtues and the three Heavenly Graces. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 35. Weight in Grams: 370.

'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second'
'It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'

There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its approach and the virtuosity of its execution.

Ricks examines Dylan's songs through the biblical concepts of the seven deadly Sins, the four cardinal Virtues and the three Heavenly Graces. He does so with what one critic has described as 'an ultimately irresistible combination of laser-like intelligence with a fan's exuberant idolatry'.

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862013
SKU
V9780857862013
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99-86

About Christopher Ricks
Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities, and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge. He is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, of which he was president from 2007 to 2008. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 2004 to 2009.

Reviews for Dylan´s Visions of Sin
Ricks's writing on Dylan is the best there is
Alex Ross

New Yorker

The rewards are just as one would expect: a bracing attention to artfulness, a wonderful sensitivity to nuance, and a particularly brilliant sympathy with the purpose and effect of Dylan's rhymes
Andrew Motion

Guardian

Everything Ricks has to say about Dylan is original. He is a critic who seems to be talking to you from within the work. He can turn the smallest niche in a poem into a vast cathedral of resonance and implication.
Bryan Appleyard

Sunday Times

A great case has been made by a great critic (Christopher Ricks) that a great lyricist - Bob Dylan - is, in fact, a poet

New York Review of Books

Bob Dylan is fast becoming rock's equivalent of James Joyce
Sean O'Hagan

Observer

Compelling, convincing and challenging work of literary scholarship.
Alan Taylor

Sunday Herald

Structured around the concepts of sin, virtue and grace, Ricks's close reading and imaginative cross-referencing will indeed uncover meanings in Dylan's songs that would never have occured to you.
Anthony Quinn

Daily Telegraph

Zips along with irrepressible good humour. . . Ricks's work has the lustre of a lifetime of engagement with greatness.
Peter Aspden

Financial Times

Fascinating, there are wonderfully penetrating and illuminating moments to be found. I was never less than stimulated and frequently stirred.
John Preston

Sunday Telegraph

Ricks is an exemplar of the diminishingly seen art of "close reading", and explicator of Milton, Keats, Tennyson and Eliot. . . Such clockwork analysis never seems to drain Dylan's work of its vitality, but rather to renew a listener's amazement. . . In doing so he's found the songs all the more extraordinary, not wanting in any measure. . . Ricks's book leads you back to Dylan's music, no small virtue.
Jonathan Lethem

New York Times Book Review


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