Lyrics - Softcover

Dylan, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3150197414 ISBN 13: 9783150197417

Publisher: Reclam Philipp Jun., 2008

Synopsis

For the first time in 15 years, comes a comprehensive, definitive collection of the lyrics of music legend and poet, Bob Dylan. From his early days of protest songs, like "Blowing in the Wind", "The Times They Are A Changing", to his revolutionary Subterranean "Homesick Blues", and "Like a Rolling Stone", "Lay Lady Lay", his songs have spoken to generations, had a huge influence on such artists as John Lennon, Lou Reed and Mark Knopfler. This book also contains all of his most recent writing in addition to the beloved songs of the early Dylan canon.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

LYRICS 1962-1985

Bob Dylan's lyrics have been championed by poets Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure, compared favourably to Shakespeare by Professor Christopher Ricks, dismissed by the guardians of 'folk music', chanted at the barricades of civil rights struggles and youth revolts – and rejected in their turn by the generation that followed.

What remains – and continues – is a solid body of work that reflects as well as any cultural document the preoccupations of its generation over a twenty-year period, but offers also an intense and eccentric lyric poetry of sharp images, tuned aphorisms and the rhythmic flexibility of the best American verse.

"Its right to pride of place on the rock culture's short shelf of indispensable writings will be unchallenged. Dylan is the most talented single songwriter of modern times"
CLIVE JAMES, 'The Guardian'

"Variously extraordinary and insinuatingly true songs"
CHRISTOPHER RICKS

"As a lyric poet of intensity, and as a human being of political and humanistic feeling, Dylan stands proud with the revolutionary romantics of the early nineteenth century"
RICHARD GOTI, 'The Guardian'

"The happiest aspect of this book is that it is not the end. There is still more to come from the ever-churning cement-mixer that is Dylan's creative mind"
DAILY TELEGRAPH

About the Author:

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, Bob Dylan is without question one of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. He not only revolutionised popular music by incorporating poetry in his folk and rock compositions, he also helped create a more inclusive and progressive consciousness in American culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Reclam Philipp Jun.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3150197414
• ISBN 13: 9783150197417
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Editor: Detering Heinrich