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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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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my issue is that, while certainly deserving, this effectively ensures no American will win for 20 yrs. So no award for Roth.
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ppl forget classical poetry like The Iliad was originally set to music
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Dylan is in the long tradition of troubadours. The very origins of European vernacular literature.
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If it's awarded to poets, it can certainly go it to songwriters. What's a songwriter but a poet set to music?
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well, a lot of the time the music comes first and shapes the words, but basically yeah
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isn't songwriting just a form of poetry?
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Since my grade 11 English lit teacher used Dylan songs to demonstrate modern poetry I'm gonna say, yeah, songwriting counts
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, agreed. But that alienation btw poetic ambition and "popular" still exists in big way for poets and even some fiction writers
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