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Why Dylan Matters

By (author) Richard F. Thomas, Read by Nick Landrum

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A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. â€˜At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylanâ€™ Mary Beard â€˜Thomasâ€™s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone â€“ not just the super-fansâ€™ Independent When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world was up in arms. How could the worldâ€™s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter in his Seventies, who wouldnâ€™t even deign to make an acceptance speech? In Why Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers that question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil and Ovid. Dylanâ€™s Nobel prize win brought him vindication. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomasâ€™s famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the rock nâ€™ roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets. Youâ€™ll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again.