Before his death in 1997, Allen Ginsberg recalled hearing Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” for the first time, at a party in the early 1960s. Filled with rich, apocalyptic imagery ...

This week, Bob Dylan finally gave the Nobel people an answer to their offer of the Literature Prize—he's happy to accept, but he's afraid he's too busy to go pick it up. Everyone's having a good ...

BACK IN the early '80s, I was having dinner with poet and singer Leonard Cohen, and we were talking about Bob Dylan. Cohen had had dinner with Dylan a few nights earlier, and we were discussing ...

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden Saturday, where the Swedish Academy’s Horace Engdahl explained in the presentation speech why the legendary ...

To this day, nobody really knows why Bob Dylan changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, but here are some of the theories.

Thursday morning, we learned that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize for literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." I'm delighted in particular ...

“Bob Dylan, however, is the worst poet alive,” he said. “He can maybe get one good line in a song, and the rest is gibberish.” Harsh words from the award-winning writer.

You saw the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. And you over there, you first understood Bob Dylan in 2005. Regardless of your experience and history with the legendary songwriter, it’s easy to watch ...

Over the years, Bob Dylan has borrowed lyrics and lines of writing from other artists, including obscure Confederate poet Henry Timrod. In the early 2000s, Dylan grew interested in Civil War history.

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for Wales ...