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Blowin' in the wind.(Dylan's Visions of Sin)(Book Review)
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Christopher Ricks Dylan's Visions of Sin. Ecco (HarperCollins), 528 pages, $26.95
Whether writing on Tennyson, Eliot, Housman, Beckett, or many others, Christopher Ricks has always been a critic of exceptional learning and aplomb; that he has been generally given to a somewhat oblique, even eccentric angle of view--embarrassment in Keats, the subtleties of punctuation in Geoffrey Hill--has been to his credit, for while he is in one sense a traditional textual expert of rare authority (witness his editions of Tennyson and T. S. Eliot's smuttier verses), he has also ...
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