JS:
>>Are Dylan's poems studied in any literature class along with T.S. Eliot and
>>Ezra Pound, or is he just considered a bard?<<
Here are some courses you can sign up for:
At Gerogetown
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/newsletter/o&r/papercalls.htm
Look at Harvard's Engl S-37u
http://www.ssp.harvard.edu/2006/academics/courses/engl.jsp;jsessionid=HDDEDHNDDBLH
Here's an essay by Gillcrist from Reed College, you'll need to check with
Robert Paul about how to get in his classes.
http://www.ade.org/ade/bulletin/n083/083019.htm
At Dartmouth:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~english/Participants.html
Here's an article on teaching Dylan in The Chronicle of Higher Education
entitled: "Like a Rolling Tome"
http://chronicle.com/chronicle/v50/5033guide.htm
A Google search on "bob dylan literary studies u.s. colleges" returned 676,000
hits. You're welcome to go through them all at your leisure.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Spratt
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 1:46 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Visions of Dylan
I am reading a book by Christopher Ricks "Dylan's Visions of Sin" in which
the author, a recognized literary scholar, claims that Dylan's songs/poems
should be considered with the same amount of seriousness as other poets in the
pantheon of literature. If there are any members of this list that teach or
have a more sophisticated background in literature than the Spratt I would
appreciate their opinion on this. Are Dylan's poems studied in any literature
class along with T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, or is he just considered a bard? I
see him on a continuum from Whitman to Poe to Kerouac to Ginsberg, but never
considered him in the same group as Marlow (Faustus / Dr. Filth) or Swinburne
(Dolores / Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands) until now. What do you think about
the former Blind Boy Grunt??
J.S.
Yippee! I'm a poet, and I know it
Hope I don't blow it
(I Shall Be Free No. 10)
J.S.
The one thing we lack is a handy utopia.
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