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Dylan´s Visions of Sin
Christopher Ricks
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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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Ref
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
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