1. The conversation about Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize would be more productive if more people read Christopher Ricks' "Dylan's Visions of Sin"
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seems that robert hunter should be on that list.
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How many of the Nobel voters have read Ricks do you think?
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I don't dispute that Dylan can be read as a poet, but his art form is still received as music, not literature.
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7. The deeper questions are: what is literature? Does literature encompass songwriting? I think it does.
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8. If songwriting is literature, then Dylan, one of the great song-writers of the last century, is worthy of a Nobel.
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In the Anglosphere. Brecht and Weil in Germany and Brassens in France were champions of the art song.
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