Dylan's Visions of Sin (review)
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The author of Milton's Grand Style and editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse has the authority to do what an American could not: treat Bob Dylan as a major poet—thereby reversing conventional wisdom regarding "postmortem" American poetry (no "great" poets, formal poetry's passé, the audience is small, etc.). Why call him a "poet" instead of a "songwriter"? Because, like Shakespeare's plays, Dylan's lyrics can be appreciated differently, and in some ways better, as written texts than in performance. "Dylan's is an art in which sins are laid bare (and resisted), virtues are valued (and manifested), and graces brought home."
Mark P. Watters, a conservator of works of art on paper in Los Angeles, has recently completed the treatment of twenty-three etchings and drypoints by Rembrandt from the collections of the Norton Simon Museum.
