The poet, novelist, and essayist Philip Larkin, in an album review for The Daily Telegraph in 1965:
I’m afraid I poached Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”(CBS) out of curiosity and found myself well rewarded. Dylan’s cawing, derisive voice is probably well suited to his material—I say probably because much of it was unintelligible to me—and his guitar adapts itself to rock (“Highway 61”) and ballad (“Queen Jane”) admirably. There is a marathon “Desolation Row” which has an enchanting tune and mysterious, possibly half-baked words.
Here are the lyrics to Dylan’s masterpiece.
