26 July 1973: Clive James reviews a collection of Dylan’s lyrics, poems, writings and personal drawings

Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan (Cape, £2.50)

For a gentle but rapidly ageing generation, no book ever asked to be read to pieces like Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan. Helpfully, Jonathan Cape have bound its 300-plus pages in pink cardboard, so that it can come to pieces more easily.