From: vhugofan@gmail.com   
      
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   “Over the course of six decades, Bob Dylan steadily brought together popular   
   music and poetic excellence. Yet the guardians of literary culture have only   
   rarely accepted Dylan’s legitimacy.   
      
   His 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature undermined his outsider status, challenging   
   scholars, fans and critics to think of Dylan as an integral part of   
   international literary heritage. My new book, “No One to Meet: Imitation and   
   Originality in the Songs of    
   Bob Dylan,” takes this challenge seriously and places Dylan within a   
   literary tradition that extends all the way back to the ancients.   
      
   I am a professor of early modern literature, with a special interest in the   
   Renaissance. But I am also a longtime Dylan enthusiast and the co-editor of   
   the open-access Dylan Review, the only scholarly journal on Bob Dylan.   
      
   After teaching and writing about early modern poetry for 30 years, I   
   couldn’t help but recognize a similarity between the way Dylan composes his   
   songs and the ancient practice known as “imitatio.”   
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   This was posted in the poetry group and I thought Bob Dylan scholars would   
   appreciate seeing it...!   
      
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