{"product_id":"dylans-visions-of-sin-9780060599249","title":"Dylan's Visions of Sin","description":"Bob Dylan's ways with words are a wonder, matched as they are with his music and verified by those voices of his. In response to the whole range of Dylan early and late (his songs of social conscience, of earthly love, of divine love, and of contemplation), this critical appreciation listens to Dylan's attentive genius, alive in the very words and their rewards. \u003cp\u003e\"Fools they made a mock of sin.\" Dylan's is an art in which sins are laid bare (and resisted), virtues are valued (and manifested), and the graces brought home. The seven deadly sins, the four cardinal virtues (harder to remember?), and the three heavenly graces: these make up everybody's world -- but Dylan's in particular. Or rather, his worlds, since human dealings of every kind are his for the artistic seizing. Pride is anatomized in \"Like a Rolling Stone,\" Envy in \"Positively 4th Street,\" Anger in \"Only a Pawn in Their Game\" ... But, hearteningly, Justice reclaims \"Hattie Carroll,\" Fortitude \"Blowin' in the Wind,\" Faith \"Precious Angel,\" Hope \"Forever Young,\" and Charity \"Watered-Down Love.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The \"New Yorker, Alex Ross wrote that \"Ricks's writing on Dylan is the best there is. Unlike most rock critics -- 'forty-year-olds talking to ten-year-olds, ' Dylan has called them -- he writes for adults.\" In the \"Times (London), Bryan Appleyard maintained that \"Ricks, one of the most distinguished literary critics of our time, is almost the only writer to have applied serious literary intelligence to Dylan ...\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDylan's countless listeners (and even the artist himself, who knows?) may agree with W.H. Auden that Ricks \"is exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Ricks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.36w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060599249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/11\/2005 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRicks, Christopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Ricks is a Warren Professor of the Humanities, codirector of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and a member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He was formerly professor of English at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRicks is the author of \u003cem\u003eMilton's Grand Style\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), \u003cem\u003eTennyson\u003c\/em\u003e (second edition, 1989), \u003cem\u003eKeats and Embarrassment\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eThe Force of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), \u003cem\u003eT.S. Eliot and Prejudice\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), \u003cem\u003eBeckett's Dying Words\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eEssays in Appreciation\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eAllusion to the Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), and \u003cem\u003eReviewery\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). He is also the editor of \u003cem\u003ePoems of Tennyson\u003c\/em\u003e (second edition, 1987), \u003cem\u003eThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eA.E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), \u003cem\u003eInventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917\u003c\/em\u003e by T.S. Eliot (1996), \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Book of English Verse\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems of James Henry\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), and \u003cem\u003eDecisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot\u003c\/em\u003e (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43099472035955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":20.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9e81ced0-5e43-47a3-9048-0746cd8baa00.jpg?v=1748700598","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/dylans-visions-of-sin-9780060599249","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}