Cat among pigeons …

… Bob Dylan: The Music Travels, the Poetry Stays Home | by Tim Parks | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  while Dylan’s greatness seems evident in English-speaking countries, even to those scandalized that he has been given the Nobel, this is simply not the case in all those places where Dylan’s music is regularly heard, but his language only partially understood. Which is to say, in most of the world.