Link: Dylan and the Nobel

Categorize Dylan’s work as you will, but its literary qualities are exceptional; its artful idealism has contributed to major social change, altering and enriching the lives of millions culturally, politically, and aesthetically; the voices acclaiming it are many and distinguished.

Gordon Ball vom Department of English and Fine Arts des Virginia Military Institute, der Bob Dylan schon 1996 für den Literatur-Nobelpreis nominierte, erklärt in dem verlinkten, 2007 im Fachmagazin Oral Tradition erschienenen Artikel »Dylan and the Nobel« sein wiederholtes, zwanzig Jahre später erfolgreiches Engagement für Dylan.