Read Dylan's Visions of Sin Online
Authors: Christopher Ricks
W. B. Yeats: excerpts from
A Prayer for my Daughter
and
The Scholars
.
Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.
William Empson: excerpts from
Seven Types of Ambiguity
and
Argufying
. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of William Empson.
Copyright © William Empson. Excerpts from
Seven Types of Ambiguity
published by the Hogarth Press. Used by permission of Lady Empson and the Random House Group Ltd. Excerpts from
The
Complete Poems
edited by John Haffenden (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000) copyright © Estate of William Empson, 2000.
T. S. Eliot: excerpts from
The Waste Land
,
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
,
Gerontion
,
Little Gidding
,
Ash-Wednesday
,
Selected Essays
,
The Use of Poetry and the Use of
Criticism
(1964),
Letters
, Volume 1,
On Poetry and Poets
(1957),
A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot, Nightwood
(Introduction) and
The Sacred Wood
. Reproduced by
permission of Faber and Faber.
Wallace Stevens: excerpts from
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
and
The Plot Against the Giant
from
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
. Reprinted by permission of Faber
and Faber.
Philip Larkin:
Love Songs in Age
,
Home is so Sad
; excerpts from
The Life with a Hole in it,
from
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
,
All What Jazz
and
Required
Writing
. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber.
Dream Song 118
, excerpts from
Dream Song 45
,
168
, from
The Dream Songs
by John Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber.
Bob Dylan: the following excerpts reproduced by permission of Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Abandoned Love.
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Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous Birthday.
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Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One.
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All Along the Watchtower.
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All I Really Want to Do.
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All the Tired Horses.
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Angelina.
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Are You Ready?
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Baby, I’m in the Mood for You.
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Baby, Stop Crying.
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Ballad in Plain D.
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Ballad of a Thin Man.
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Blind Willie McTell.
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Blowin’ in the Wind.
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Bob Dylan’s Dream.
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Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag.
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Boots of Spanish Leather.
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Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard).
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Bye and Bye.
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Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
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City of Gold.
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Clean-Cut Kid.
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Clothes Line Saga.
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Country Pie.
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’Cross the Green Mountain.
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Cry A While.
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Dark Eyes.
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Day of the Locusts.
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Dead Man, Dead Man.
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1981 by Special Rider Music
Dear Landlord.
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1968 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1996 by Dwarf Music
Death is Not the End.
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Desolation Row.
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Dirge.
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Disease of Conceit.
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Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others).
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1979 by Special Rider Music
Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight.
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Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.
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Emotionally Yours.
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Eternal Circle.
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Every Grain of Sand.
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Farewell.
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Farewell, Angelina.
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Foot of Pride.
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Forever Young.
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1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music
Fourth Time Around.
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From a Buick 6.
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Gates of Eden.
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Goin’ to Acapulco.
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Going, Going, Gone.
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1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music
Gotta Serve Somebody.
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1979 by Special Rider Music
Handy Dandy.
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
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Hero Blues.
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Highlands.
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High Water (For Charley Patton).
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Highway 61 Revisited.
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Hurricane (with Jacques Levy).
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1975 by Ram’s Horn Music
I and I.
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I Believe in You.
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1979 by Special Rider Music
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met).
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I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine.
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I Shall Be Free.
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I Shall Be Free No. 10.
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I Shall Be Released.
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I Want You.
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Idiot Wind.
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If I Don’t Be There by Morning.
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If Not For You.
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If You Gotta Go, Go Now.
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In the Summertime.
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It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.
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Jokerman.
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1983 by Special Rider Music
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues.
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Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie.
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Lay Down Your Weary Tune.
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Lay, Lady, Lay.
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Let’s Keep It Between Us.
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License to Kill.
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Like a Rolling Stone.
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Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
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Love Minus Zero / No Limit.
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Maggie’s Farm.
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Mama, You Been on My Mind.
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Man of Peace.
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Maybe Someday.
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Million Dollar Bash.
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Mississippi. ©
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Mr. Tambourine Man.
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Moonlight.
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Most of the Time.
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My Back Pages.
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Neighborhood Bully.
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New Pony.
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No Time to Think.
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North Country Blues.
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Not Dark Yet.
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Odds and Ends.
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Oh Sister (with Jacques Levy).
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On a Night Like This.
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One More Weekend.
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One Too Many Mornings.
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Only a Pawn in Their Game.
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Oxford Town.
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Percy’s Song.
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Please, Mrs. Henry.
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Pledging My Time.
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Positively 4th Street.
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Precious Angel.
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Pressing On.
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Quit Your Low Down Ways.
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