ENGL 3606
Songs of Dylan and Cohen
January - April 2018
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Lecture schedule

Jan 8Introduction
Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
Cohen, “Sisters of Mercy”
Jan 15Dylan, “Masters of War”
Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
Dylan, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
Dylan, “The Times They are A-Changin’”
Dylan, “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
Jan 22Cohen, “Suzanne”
Cohen, “Master Song”
Cohen, “Stranger Song”
Cohen, “So Long, Marianne”
Cohen, “Teachers”
Reading: Gitlin (please use PDF version)
Jan 29Dylan, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
Dylan, “Maggie’s Farm”
Dylan, “Mr. Tambourine Man”
Dylan, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
Reading: Lebold
Feb 5Cohen, “Bird on the Wire”
Cohen, “Story of Isaac”
Cohen, “Lady Midnight”
Cohen, “Last Year’s Man”
Cohen, “Famous Blue Raincoat”
Feb 12Dylan, “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Cohen, “Avalanche”
Mid-term test (at 5:00 p.m.)
Feb 26Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man”
Dylan, “Queen Jane Approximately”
Dylan, “Highway 61 Revisited”
Dylan, “Desolation Row”
short essay
Mar 5Cohen, “Is This What You Wanted”
Cohen, “Chelsea Hotel no. 2”
Cohen, “Who by Fire”
Cohen, “Take This Longing”
Cohen, “Memories”
Reading: Adorno (three pages)
Mar 12Dylan, “Visions of Johanna”
Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile”
Dylan, “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
Dylan, “All Along the Watchtower”
Dylan, “Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”
Dylan, “Tangled up in Blue”
Dylan, “Hurricane”
Reading: Gezari (please use PDF version)
Mar 19Cohen, “The Guests”
Cohen, “Dance Me to the End of Love”
Cohen, “Night Comes On”
Cohen, “Hallelujah”
Cohen, “If It Be Your Will”
Cohen, “Everybody Knows”
Reading: O’Neil
Mar 26Dylan, “Jokerman”
Dylan, “I and I”
Dylan, “Things Have Changed”
Cohen, “Take This Waltz”
Cohen, “The Tower of Song”
Cohen, “The Future”
Cohen, “Anthem”
term essay
Apr 9Dylan, “Not Dark Yet”
Cohen, “You Want It Darker”
Review



Marc R. Plamondon, Ph.D. Department of English Studies Nipissing University