Timrod did not fight in the Civil War, but he wrote poems about it and its effect on life in the South. While he became known as the poet laureate of the Confederacy, he is a relatively obscure poet ...

The Nobel committee has awarded Bob Dylan the prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” This is an interesting encapsulation of Dylan’s ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that made him the ...

He was, for a time, the voice of my generation. Heralded as the poet laureate of the early 1960s, Bob Dylan vanished, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, “into a haze of substance abuse,” and was ...

Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...

Bob Dylan co-wrote the lyrics for nine out of ten of the songs on his upcoming album with poet Robert Hunter, it has emerged. The singer-songwriter's representatives confirmed that Hunter contributed ...

While MTV's popular Unplugged series often served as a platform for bands and musicians who were generally known for their more electrified music to showcase less amplified versions of their most ...

With the lyrics of a poet and a slurry voice as gravelly as an unpaved country road, Bob Dylan gained a following as a folk singer, but his body of work transcends any single genre. A unique synthesis ...

“Joan is yours.” That’s what the email from director James Mangold to Monica Barbaro said. The actor had sent in her audition tape for the role of folk legend Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown,” the ...