Red river shore bob dylan wikipedia biography

This review updated 19 July 2018, with the addition of three videos of the song, plus the missing verse and a short debate on the meaning of mythopoeic and a comparison with Gormenghast. Plus a list of other articles that to greater or lesser extents take in this song along the way.

by Tony Attwood

Long before Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Heylin, called this “a lyric worthy of any poet laureate”, which shows a rare bit of insight, even if it was wholly fortuitous in its predictive sense.

He continues, “Another long song, the “Shelter” narrative descends from some mythopoeic realm…” which had me reaching for the Complete Oxford dictionary – and yes that word is there, meaning the making of myths.

Rather in the manner of Tolkein, William Blake, Mervyn Peake… which immediately had me wondering where my copies of Gormenghast were.

But really, is the story here enough to be a myth in the sense that the Gormenghas