This is beyond imbecility. Dylan’s low IQ doggerel is as worthy of a Nobel as Rigoberta Menchu’s “biography” and all the other PC Nobels to small talent, mediocre minds for their service to the leftist agenda. Yeah, Dylan is just as good as Kipling or Hemmingway. /sarc/
Who would you have picked, O iron-hearted, tin-eared Achilles?
Kipling and Hem are gone, you know, and Homer too.
(Maya Angelou is out of the running as well, thank goodness.)
I’m sorry, I have to disagree. The song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” has got to be one of the greatest songs ever written. Especially when sung by Judy Collins. Also, the gorgeous love song “Tomorrow Is A Long Time” combined with his more famous classics. A great poet.
Congrats, Bob!
As a serious poet, I agree.
I enrolled in a course in poetry several years ago. The community organizer indoctrinating us spent the first session asserting that only political poetry was valid, and that Tupak Shakur was a better poet than Percy Shelley.
I dropped the class the next day.
We live in the communist LCD Age: Lowest Common(unist) Denominator.