[sushiman]

So the fact you don’t like him automatically means he is over-rated ??? He was a great influence on many musicians and other writers , too , but you probably wouldn’t like them either .

[massatoosits]

No. The fact is that he was embraced by a socio-political group think crowd that sought to bring a change to the current culture by proclaiming some to be worthy while others are not. The old rules of defining both good writing and good poetry were tossed out for the sake of elevating some over others. This is my complaint. I might even say the same about the “many musicians and other writers” as well. This is still a free country where we can have our differences, I think...