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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016
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      2. Some context: since the death of his William Empson, there's no literary critic more sensitive to the English language than Ricks

      2 replies 6 retweets 28 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016
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      3. Ricks' Dylan book, using his trademark close reading, demonstrates beyond dispute that Dylan's lyrics have the expressive range of poetry

      5 replies 13 retweets 43 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016
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      4. You want ambiguity, you want allusions, you want antic word play, you want vernacular robustness? Dylan's got it all.

      2 replies 16 retweets 55 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016
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      5. Beyond the undeniable linguistic power of his lyrics, there's Dylan's massive cultural impact.

      3 replies 8 retweets 29 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016
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      6. Along with his peers Leonard Cohen & Joni Mitchell, Dylan ended the long alienation between popular music & poetic ambition.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016
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      7. The deeper questions are: what is literature? Does literature encompass songwriting? I think it does.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Oct 2016

      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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        1.  🧦 🌹  🇺🇦 Comrade Technocrat  🇺🇦 🌐 🧦‏ @AndyWarrenStein 13 Oct 2016
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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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        1. Dread Pirate Rogers‏ @DockRogersNC 13 Oct 2016
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          if lyrics were read as poetry Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize about 20 years ago!

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        1. Mnemotomy‏ @Mnenotomy 13 Oct 2016
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          criteria of judgment music vs literature are disjunction; lyricism related to literature but subordinate to musical considerations

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        1. The Rob Crowe‏ @robcrowe00 13 Oct 2016
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          exactly, and more as well a writer of American song, which has had a gigantic impact on the world we live in. #blamemodernism

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        1. ChompChompChomp‏ @Iceman4423 13 Oct 2016
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          Doesn't matter. If you just put his lyrics on a page in front of you, he is a poet. The man is brilliant.

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        1. ຄົນນັ້ນ‏ @manfromlaos 13 Oct 2016
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          also, when the muse withered the aura developed. He is sometimes more satisfying to read about than to listen to in the old way

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        1. Sarah Horrocks‏ @mercurialblonde 13 Oct 2016
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          at least someone is seeing sense.

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        1. patrick ford‏ @pppatrickford 13 Oct 2016
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          Dylan manages to write great songs in several different styles.

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        1. sparnon‏ @sparnon 13 Oct 2016
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          lyric writing is certainly literature, the music and lyrics can be separated. See: any theatrical musical.

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        1. patrick ford‏ @pppatrickford 13 Oct 2016
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          He developed the style most closely associated with him on songs like STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN.

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