PAUL SIMON’S RETURN TO GRACE

While Bob Dylan was calling a heartless world to repentance in the ’60s, Paul Simon was more concerned with the state of his own heart...and intellect. Dylan was awed by the dustbowl laments of Woody Guthrie and initially rendered harsh blues songs, but the ever-literate Simon was mentioning Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost in lyrics crafted with almost academic deliberation.