Dylan in Nobel lecture row

LOS ANGELES: Bob Dylan has been accused of borrowing heavily for part of the Nobel Literature Prize lecture he delivered to the Swedish Academy last week.

The singer-songwriter’s remarks on how the book, Moby Dick, influenced him bear a close similarity to the SparkNotes summaries of the novel, according to an analysis on Slate.com

SparkNotes.com provides study guides.

Author Andrea Pitzer, writing on Slate.com on Tuesday, listed about 20 sentences from Dylan’s lecture on Moby Dick that closely resembled phrases or ideas on the SparkNotes website. – Reuters