714 Bob Dylan (1941- ) “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” 1964

“In ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,’ Dylan describes the negligent homicide of a kitchen maid, Hattie Carroll, at the hands of the son of a Baltimore aristocrat…What concerned Dylan was not whether the victim’s family received a just remedy for its loss, but whether just retribution was provided to the assailant. The Biblical lex talionis, the law of retribution, was what Dylan seemed to have in mind” (Francis Beckwith in Bob Dylan and Philosophy, 2006). 

Bob Dylan “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”