Ira Wells teaches Bob Dylan in his classes on American literature at the University of Toronto. These lines, from what many listeners consider his finest album, Blood on the Tracks, capture the pain and anger Dylan experienced during his divorce. These lines, from Visions of Johanna, showcase Dylan in this lyrically dense, evocative, chimerical — and more or less apolitical — style. Bart Beaty, professor of English at University of Calgary, wrote about Dylan every single day in a 2014 blog, LongandWastedYear.com. Andy Wainwright, professor emeritus of English at Dalhousie University, used to teach a course called Bob Dylan and Literature of the 60s.

Source: National Post October 13, 2016 21:11 UTC