Lennon, John, 146–47, 148, 164
Leone, Sergio, 122
“Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” (song), 93
Lethem, Jonathan, 123
Letterman, David, 207
Letters from the Black Sea (Ovid), 238, 240, 246–47
Levy, Lou, 96, 118
Lewis, Furry, 170
Life of Virgil (Suetonius), 203, 211–12
“Like a Rolling Stone” (song), 93, 272
Lindberg, Erik, 13
Little Richard, 45, 50, 167
Live at the Gaslight 1962 (album), 86
Lomax, Alan, 169, 170, 171, 172
London Palladium, 46
“Lonesome Day Blues” (song), 7, 77–78, 194–202, 238, 273
“Lonesome Valley” (song), 170
“Long Ago, Far Away” (song), 70–72
“Long and Wasted Years” (song), 278, 279
Longley, Edna, 294
“Lord Randall” (ballad), 297
Love, Robert, 129, 270, 271, 274, 284
“Love and Theft” (album), 7, 43, 74, 77, 174, 228, 265, 269, 275, 279. See also individual songs
historical and contemporary elements in, 121–22
intertextuality in, 164, 187, 193–94, 196, 197
“Love Sick” (song), 64, 168, 188, 279
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The (Eliot), 16, 305–6
Lownds, Hans, 72
Lownds, Sara. See Dylan, Sara
Lunde, Gunnar, 292
Lybba, 52, 53, 54
Lyre, 13, 36, 82, 288
Lyric poetry, 35–36, 60, 237
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 63
McCarthy, Joseph, 283
McCarthyism, 52–53
McCartney, Paul, 29
McCormick, Neil, 218
McGhee, Brownie, 312
MacKenzie, Eve, 138
MacLeish, Archibald, 97–98
Madison Square Garden, 186
“Maggie’s Farm” (song), 290
“Make You Feel My Love” (song), 189, 206–7
Mandela, Nelson, 20
“Man in the Long Black Coat” (song), 93
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 53, 54
“Man of Constant Sorrow” (Dylan), 70
Maori people, 20
March on Washington, 1963, 20
Marcus, Greil, 32, 42, 43–44
Mark Twain House, 44
Marqusee, Mike, 157
Martin, Dean, 269
Masked and Anonymous (film), 42, 99, 228
Mason, Catharine, 5–6, 8
“Masters of War” (song), 23, 28–29, 133–35, 319
“Mattie Groves” (song), 314
Max Gate (Hardy’s house), 44
Maymudes, Victor, 214
“Meet Me in the Morning” (song), 35, 224–25
“Melancholy Mood” (song), 277, 278
Melville, Herman, 314–16
Memory, 245–52
Mesabi Iron Range, 42, 45
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 115, 244
Miller, Bennett, 230
“Million Miles” (song), 188
Milton, John, 115, 209, 220
“Mississippi” (song), 225, 262, 284, 309
“Miss Mary Jane” (song), 172
Mitchell, Joni, 39, 85
Moby-Dick (Melville), 56, 314–16
Modern Times (album), 109, 122–23, 164, 197, 204, 227–48, 253–55, 275. See also individual songs
critical and popular success of, 228
narrative texture of, 229
old songs on, 231–34
release of, 227
Modern Times (film), 229
Moross, Jerome, 269
Morrison, Toni, 292
Morrison, Van, 39
“Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)” (song), 93
“Most of the Time” (song), 251
Motion, Andrew, 293
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (song), 22, 153–54, 155
Murphy, Cullen, 3
Muses, 12, 13, 37, 59, 66, 72, 108, 116, 174, 248
“Mutineer” (song), 163
“My Heart’s in the Highlands” (Burns), 176–79
“My Wife’s Home Town” (song), 251
“Narrow Way” (song), 259
Nashville Skyline (album), 31, 32, 285
National Defense Education Act of 1958, 63
Neil, Fred, 99–100
Nelson Mail, 239
“Nettie Moore” (song), 232–33, 248
New Lost City Ramblers, 312
New Morning (album), 32
Newport Folk Festival, 21–22, 47, 167, 216, 293
Newsweek, 48, 62
New Yorker, 213, 291, 298, 299–300
New York Post, 300
New York Times, 233, 234, 293, 311
Nixon, Richard, 1, 28, 62
Nobel Prize in Literature, 11–16, 56, 120, 160, 256, 261–65, 273, 274, 276, 281, 291–319
Dylan’s absence from award ceremony, 296, 299
Dylan’s award announced, 292–94
Dylan’s banquet speech, 304–11
Dylan’s Nobel Lecture, 311–19
Eliot awarded, 14–16, 209
inscription on medal, 12–14, 31, 189
No Direction Home (film), 49, 289
“North Country Blues” (song), 47–49
“Norwegian Wood” (song), 146–47
Nostalgia, 245–52, 322–23
Nostoi, 246
“Not Dark Yet” (song), 44, 187–88, 230
“Notes on Scottish Song” (Burns), 178
“Nottamun Town” (song), 133–35, 319
Nuclear threat, 5, 296–97
Oates, Joyce Carol, 293
“Obviously Five Believers” (song), 163
Odes (Horace), 236–38
Odyssey (Homer), 14, 56, 132–33, 252–65, 287, 313–14
Dylan as Odysseus, 254–65
nostalgia in, 245–46
Ovid as Odysseus, 252–56
“Old Ark’s A-Moverin,’ The” (song), 169
“Once Upon a Time” (song), 272
“One Too Many Mornings” (song), 67
“Only a Pawn in Their Game” (song), 21
“Only Wanna Be with You” (song), 135–36
On Moral Duties (Cicero), 17
Oresteia, The (Aeschylus), 127, 276, 288
Ostergren, Klas, 160
Østrem, Eyolf, 199
Ovid, 2, 4, 56–57, 109, 123, 124, 197, 270, 295, 322
Art of Love, 238
exile poetry, 238–48, 253
Letters from the Black Sea, 238, 240, 246–47
Metamorphoses, 115, 244
as Odysseus, 252–56
Tristia, 238, 239, 240, 241, 246, 247–48, 253, 254
Oxford University, 236
Paradise Lost (Milton), 220
Pareles, Jon, 188, 233–34, 267
Pasqua, Alan, 311–12
Past Present Future (album), 127, 276
“Pastures of Plenty” (song), 136, 138
“Pay in Blood” (song), 254, 259, 264–65, 277, 278, 303
Pennebaker, D. A., 72, 148
Persian Gulf wars. See Iraq wars
Peter, Paul and Mary, 19, 20, 206
Petrarch, 124
Philharmonic Hall, 152
“Philip Massinger” (Eliot), 193
Plagiarism, 131–33, 203–4, 321–22. See also Intertextuality
Plato, 97
Plutarch, 124, 129
“Po’ Boy” (song), 268
Pompey the Great, 4
“Poor Boy” (song), 171
“Poor People in Church” (Rimbaud), 158–60
Popular culture, 205–8
“Positively 4th Street” (song), 93, 163
Pound, Ezra, 15, 16, 153, 305–6
Princeton University, 24
Protest songs, 21, 23, 29, 38
“Queen Jane Approximately” (song), 93, 163
Quo Vadis (film), 53–54
Radio City Music Hall, 272
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Raji, Azita, 304
“Rebecca” (song), 269
“Red River Shore” (song), 252
Remarque, Erich Maria, 314–15
Remnick, David, 291
Revolution in the Air (Heylin), 320
“Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night, A” (Timrod), 235
Rich, Motoko, 234
Ricks, Christopher, 42, 208–9
Rimbaud, Arthur, 77, 121, 149–60, 196, 244, 245, 295
“The Drunken Boat,” 153–54
“Poor People in Church,” 158–60
Ring composition, 144
“Rising Sun Blues, The” (song), 171
Ritchie, Jean, 133–35, 312, 319
Robe, The (film), 53, 54, 55, 89, 127
Rock and roll, 57–58
Rolfzen, B. J., 43–44, 47, 48, 54, 111
“Rollin’ and Tumblin’” (song), 93, 227, 242
Rolling Stone, 32, 98, 123, 124, 201–2, 228, 242
Rolling Stones, 29
Rolling Thunder Revue, 36, 40, 73, 97, 219
“Roll on, John” (song), 164
Rome. See also individual poets
author’s interest in, 1
Colosseum of, 67, 72, 78, 91
Dylan influenced by ancient literature of, 2–8, 17, 27, 79–86, 89–94, 114–15, 121–26, 127–29, 144, 201, 202, 308
Dylan’s adoption as birthplace, 70, 74, 125
Dylan’s early interest in, 49–57
Dylan’s press conference in, 74–78, 98, 116, 122
Dylan’s visits and performances, 54, 66–74, 92–94, 207, 229, 249
Rosen, Jeff, 217
Roth, Philip, 291
Rotolo, Mary, 66
Rotolo, Suze, 65, 66, 67–68, 69, 140, 146, 149–50, 248–49
death of, 94
A Freewheelin’ Time, 108–9, 149
Rubber Soul (album), 146
Rucker, Darius, 135–36
Rush, Tom, 169, 170, 183
Rushdie, Salman, 293
Ruth Eckerd Hall, 268, 286
“Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (song), 30, 185
Saga, Junichi, 196–99
Samson and Delilah (film), 127
Sappho, 2, 59, 97, 302–3
“Sara” (song), 73, 218, 220, 252
Satires (Juvenal), 91
“Scarborough Fair” (song), 250
“Scarlet Town” (song), 86–89
Scobie, Stephen, 42
Scorsese, Martin, 49, 289
Seeger, Pete, 136
“Selfish Child” (original title of “Idiot Wind”), 218
Self Portrait (album), 31–32
“Señor” (song), 38
September 11 attacks, 6, 193
Serpent of the Nile (film), 53
Sexton, Charlie, 273
Shadow Blasters, 50
Shadows in the Night (album), 58, 241, 270, 271, 273, 278, 279, 283
Shakespeare, William, 53, 208, 254, 256, 274, 276, 283, 295, 307–10
Sharp, Cecil, 134
“Shelter from the Storm” (song), 55–56
Shelton, Robert, 153
Shepard, Sam, 105
“Shooting Star” (song), 252
Short, Luke, 102
Shot of Love (album), 285–86
Sibelius, Jean, 298
Silver Chalice, The (film), 53
“Simple Twist of Fate” (song), 33, 34, 35, 231, 277, 279, 281
Sinatra, Frank, 58, 127, 241, 270, 271, 272, 276, 278, 283
Sisario, Ben, 216
60 Minutes (television program), 70, 163
Slow Train Coming (album), 84
Smith, Fred (“Sonic”), 298
Smith, Patti, 296–301
“Some Enchanted Evening” (song), 271
Song and Dance Man III (Gray), 319–20
Songs of Leonard Cohen (album), 1
“Soon After Midnight” (song), 85, 243, 278, 279
Sophocles, 114, 288
South African apartheid, 20
Spartacus (film), 54
Spring of My Life, The (Rolfzen), 47
Springsteen, Bruce, 39
Sputnik, 63
“Stagger Lee” (song), 314
“Standing in the Doorway” (song), 188
“Stay With Me” (song), 269–70, 271, 279, 283
Steely Dan, 163
Still on the Road (Heylin), 320
Street Legal (album), 37–38, 80
“Streets of Laredo” (song), 314
Strouse, Charles, 272
Suetonius, 114, 203, 205, 206, 211–12
“Sugar Baby” (song), 267
Svedberg, Andrea, 48
Symbolist poetry, 149–50
Tacitus, 114, 129, 205
Tags, 208
“Tangled Up in Blue” (song), 34–35, 101, 166, 181–82, 184, 186, 206, 277, 278, 279, 280
archival material on, 218–22
legal issue over, 135–36
Tangled Up in the Bible (Gilmore), 162
Taylor, Elizabeth, 54, 61
Telegraph, 302–3
Tempest (album), 84–91, 93, 124, 126, 164, 166, 197, 204, 209, 228, 243, 269, 273, 275, 278, 279, 306, 319, 320. See also individual songs
critical acclaim for, 84
major influences on, 254–65
“Tempest” (song), 85–86, 116–17, 185
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 258
Ten O’Clock Scholar, 136
Terkel, Studs, 27–28, 68
Terry, Sonny, 312
Theme Time Radio Hour (radio program), 106–7, 109–10, 228, 276
Theoharis, 263
“Things Have Changed” (song), 278, 281–83
“This Land Is Your Land” (song), 136
Thucydides, 112–14, 115–16
“Thunder on the Mountain” (song), 238–39
“‘Til I Fell in Love with You” (song), 64, 189, 251
Time Out of Mind (album), 6, 44, 122, 126, 148, 162–91, 228, 229, 238, 267, 275, 277, 279, 319, 320, 322–23. See also individual songs
aesthetics of melancholy in, 188–91
allusiveness of title, 163
“Time Out of Mind” (song), 163
Times They Are A-Changin’, The (album), 21, 47, 283. See also individual songs
Timrod, Henry, 123, 197, 204, 234–36, 242–43, 270
“A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night,” 235
“A Vision of Poesy,” 235
“Tin Angel” (song), 85, 258, 259, 314
Tiny Tim, 100
“Titanic, The” (song), 85, 117
Together Through Life (album), 93, 164, 241, 252, 278, 306
“Tomorrow Is a Long Time” (song), 67
“To Phyllis” (Horace), 237
“To Ramona” (song), 281
“To Sing for You” (song), 148
“Touch the Hem of His Garment” (gospel song), 89
“To Virgil” (Tennyson), 189
Town Hall concert, 249
Transfiguration, 86, 88, 110, 119–27, 164–65, 167, 168, 176, 255, 262. See also Intertextuality
Travers, Mary, 33
Triads, 127, 275–81
Triplicate (album), 127, 260, 270, 272, 273, 275–76, 279
Tristia (Ovid), 238, 239, 240, 241, 246, 247–48, 253, 254
Trouble in Mind (Heylin), 320
“Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” (song), 168–75, 199, 251, 319
Tryon, Tom, 269
Tulsa archive. See Bob Dylan Archive
Turner, Big Joe, 269
“Turn Your Money Green” (song), 169, 170
“Tutti Frutti” (song), 50
Twain, Mark, 44, 95, 199–201
Twelve Caesars, The (Suetonius), 114, 212
Under the Red Sky (album), 6, 227, 286
“Under the Red Sky” (song), 93, 286
University of Caen, 5–6, 8
University of Minnesota, 41–42, 49, 136
University of Tulsa, 151, 216. See also Bob
Dylan Archive
“Up to Me” (song), 218
Ustinov, Peter, 53–54
Van Gogh, Vincent, 207
Van Ronk, Dave, 149, 156–57
Verlaine, Paul, 149, 150–51
Verne, Jules, 102
Vienna, 259–60
Vietnam war, 5, 20, 23, 25, 28, 195, 289
Vindolanda, 208
Virgil, 2, 4, 5, 7–8, 12–15, 31, 62, 77–78, 80, 121, 124, 189–91, 194–96, 201, 202, 203–8, 216, 217, 238, 242, 270, 273, 322
Aeneid (see Aeneid)
contemporary popularity of, 205–8
creative methodology of, 211–12
Eclogues, 13, 83–84, 191, 206
Georgics, 189–90, 211
Homer’s work “borrowed” by, 132–33, 203–4
“Vision of Poesy, A” (Timrod), 235
“Visions of Johanna” (song), 30, 33
Von Schmidt, Eric, 37
Walker, Irene, 52, 65
Wallace, Karen, 136
Wall Street Journal, 196
Wanderin’ Around (album), 231
Warmuth, Scott, 91, 256
Warner, Rex, 112
Warriors, The (Yurick), 90
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 15
Watergate scandal, 28, 62
Waters, Muddy, 29
Waters, Roger, 29
Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota), 41
Wells, H. G., 102
WFMT radio, Chicago, 27–28
“What Is a Classic?” (Eliot), 14–16, 209–10
“When He Returns” (song), 286
“When I Paint My Masterpiece” (song), 72–74, 75, 77–80, 88, 93
“When the Deal Goes Down” (song), 93, 229–31, 234–35
“When the Ship Comes In” (song), 21
Whitman, Walt, 295
Who, 29
“Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet” (song), 143–45
“Why Try to Change Me Now?” (song), 283
“Wiggle Wiggle” (song), 286
Wilentz, Sean, 233
Williams, Hank, 137, 212, 231, 295
Wilson, Tom, 213
Wolf, Howlin’, 29
Wolfe, Paul, 155
Wonder Boys (film), 282
Woods, Rosemary, 62
Wordsworth, William, 213, 214
“Workingman’s Blues #2” (song), 222, 229, 239, 240, 244, 246–48, 251, 255–56, 260
Workplay Studios, 272
World Gone Wrong (album), 162
World War II, 4
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 42
Young, Neil, 29, 39, 180, 185, 287
“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” (song), 30, 151
YouTube, 40, 206–7, 219, 268, 272
Yurick, Sol, 90
Zevon, Warren, 163
Zimmerman, Abe (father of Dylan), 97
Zimmerman, David (brother of Dylan), 43
Zimmerman, Keith, 124
Zimmerman, Kent, 124
Zimmerman, Robert. See Dylan, Bob
Zimmy’s, 47, 49
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