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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.