Nugget #107 -- Bob Dylan's Guide to Literature

Dylan told folk tales as well as Mark Twain ("The 

Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" and "As I 

Went Out One Morning,") and literary short stories 

as well as Raymond Carver ("Sweetheart Like You" 

and "Like a Rolling Stone"). He has and will continue 

to confound and divide academics with songs are 

varied as "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Bob Dylan’s 

115th Dream," and "Maggie's Farm." And 

he captured the American cultural zeitgeist 

as well as Eliot's "The Wasteland" or anything 

by Ezra Pound with songs like "Desolation 

Row" and "Highway 61 Revisited."