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Dylan’s Visions of Sin

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.

‘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 occurred 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”, an 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 into Dylan’s music, no small virtue.’

Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review

‘Compelling, convincing, and challenging work of literary scholarship.’

Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald