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Glossary
Genesis - Origin or beginning. The book of Genesis is the first book of the Bible, and opens with one of the most famous first sentences of any literary work: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Bob Dylan - An American singer and songwriter who released his first album in 1962, aged 20. Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
John Cale - A Welsh musician who helped to found American rock band the Velvet Underground.
Jeff Buckley - An American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
WB Yeats - An Irish poet and dramatist who is often considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century.
John Keats - An English Romantic poet who died in 1821 aged 25 from tuberculosis.