The dream of every hippie English teacher has come to pass: Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I don’t think any of my teachers used Dylan specifically as a means of conveying the importance of the poet-legislator. Dylan is still making celebrated records long after the comic tropes about groovy with-it teachers have come and gone. But he remains the commercial recording artist with the cachet of a first-class poet, heir to Rimbaud and Lamartine and Keats. Could this have happened to Dylan, assuming someone else had pointed the way as he did for Cohen?

Source: National Post October 13, 2016 15:56 UTC