Do You Mr Jones?

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<p><b>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.</b></p><p>From Orpheus to Faiz, song and poetry have been closely linked. Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition Salman Rushdie</p><p>The most significant Western popular artist in any form or medium of the past sixty years Will Self</p><p>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</p><p>His haunting music and lyrics have always seemed, in the deepest sense, literary Joyce Carol Oates</p><p>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</p>

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Neil Corcoran is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, and author of works on Seamus Heaney and modern English and Irish literature.

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