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‘Another Spin of the Disk’: Dylan’s Evolving Poetics

The world was surprised when the news broke that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Though Dylan is known as an iconic singer/songwriter of the 1960s with his pioneering folk style, few associated him with literature, which is why the prize symbolized an evolution in the thinking of the Nobel Committee, which recognized that Dylan’s music represents poetry through song. Timothy Hampton attempts to explain the enigma of Dylan’s musical creation and in his introduction, “The Maker,” he begins by distinguishing between his work and other works on Dylan’s music: