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“... it was, in fact, a rock concert – and billed ‘as a celebration of triumph over disaster’. (Bob Dylan was to be there, but had a heart attack just beforehand.)This was the main public commemoration of the Famine in Ireland. The country grew economically in the second half of the 19th century on the strength of the land clearances, and had not ...”

“... Marcel Duchamp, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, Hugo Ball, Geoff Dyer, Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis.Lamb deserves​ much better than this. He deserves, most of all, an account that makes you want to read him. His prose only intermittently wears Thomas Browne and Robert Burton and Thomas Fuller and ...”

“... have become themselves, whereas Corvo or Lowry, Hamilton or Conrad Aitken, and maybe poets like Dylan Thomas and John Berryman of more recent date, are celebrated inside their own time-warp, relished as creatures of their epoch. A disillusioned devotee is the worst that can happen to them; and although I enjoyed rereading Twenty Thousand Streets and ...”

“... pastiches of Bowie’s musical heroes of the 1960s – John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Anthony Newley, Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground. Which would make Ziggy Stardust the beautiful butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis. Paul Trynka begins his biography with a description of Bowie’s performance of ‘Starman’ on Top of the Pops on 5 July 1972. It ...”

“... a Republican senator) and her book reads like an extended feature for Vanity Fair. We learn that Bob Dylan adored her in Raintree County and that David Lynch kissed her after the 1987 Oscars (she was a fan of Blue Velvet) and that she resented Andy Warhol for making millions by turning her face into a silk screen image. What the book doesn’t do is ...”

“... home emerged. In ‘The Man Who Married Magdalene’ he managed to sound as cool and smart as Bob Dylan: I have been in this bar For close to seven days. The dark girl over there, For a modest dollar, lays. And you can get a blow-job Where other men have pissed In the little room that’s sacred To the Evangelist. In ‘The Dover Bitch’, the ...”

“... which is a bit like writing about the United States during this period and not mentioning Bob Dylan or Joan Baez, only worse. More generally, Stern never seems to have gone to a concert or a football match, talked to a cab driver, or met anyone lowlier than a full professor, major writer or government minister. By casting his memoir as a series ...”

“... couldn’t hide it.One contemporary noted the difference between Warhol and other gay artists. ‘Bob [Rauschenberg] and Jap [Johns] would even have women for dates and masked who they were,’ whereas Warhol ‘made a big effort to be, perhaps, much more swish than he really was’.Swish or not, it seemed to be fashionable not to like Warhol. A gallery owner ...”

“... place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’), and Styles of Radical Will, were akin to Bob Dylan going electric. For a large portion of the 1960s and early 1970s the mass-market paperback of Against Interpretation, with Sontag’s face on the cover, was in every countercultural kit bag, a pocket bible to ward off vampires and philistines. In ...”

“... half-Connor? Now and again the modest but watchful Connor household would be visited by Uncle Bob, a former miner who had risen to become a high-up sort of civil servant, an OBE, no less. The boy Karl observed with admiration Bob’s air of ‘frigid Olympian quiet’, ‘the awe’ of his ‘presence’. His visits ...”

“... has been, to say nothing of many a lesser figure. In what might be called the peripheral stakes Dylan Thomas and even David Jones have had more attention in some quarters – in the case of Dylan Thomas, with a wild publicity which has had little enough to do with his work. MacDiarmid, it is true, has had a share of ...”

“... for Bolshevik terrorists with homosexual tendencies’. He calls his boss, his boss calls Sheriff Bob Hicks of Duckworth County, and the ‘deflating … dénouement’ finds Tierwater on the run and Sierra rehoused with a group of evangelical ‘Christians’. The battle lines are drawn. To be a ‘friend of the earth,’ Tierwater proclaims, ‘you have to ...”

“... reader, his as writer): Better Books in Charing Cross Road (a shop managed by poets, Lee Harwood, Bob Cobbing), then Indica in Southampton Row (managed by Barry Miles), and, finally, the last rites for serious poetry-grazing, Compendium in Camden Town (Nick Kimberley, Mike Hart). The system worked. The managers knew what they had and knew what to ...”

“... by love, as in Romans 6:9 where death ‘hath no more dominion’, a tyrant deposed by Christ. Dylan Thomas made a poem from this bit of scripture, joined to the hope that ‘Though lovers be lost love shall not’ – a secular prayer also given expression in Larkin’s ‘An Arundel Tomb’. Among extinction’s consolations, the fiction of the afterlife ...”

“... with a local duchess strongly suggest a rather comfortable style of rebellion. Little wonder that Dylan Thomas, who came across the Out of Bounds group in the mid-1930s, thought they had ‘no idea of what they priggishly call “the class struggle” … They are bogus from skull to navel.’ The sequel to the elopement and marriage was marked by ...”