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Originally Posted by Straw
If Dylan isn't in in the same ballpark as Yeats, it's because they're not playing the same game. Of course, both are working with language. But Yeats is writing for the page, where the music must inhere in the words themselves or be lost. Dylan has the benefit and limitation of writing for, or along with, music. And there is also the emotional element brought by a singing voice. Both are impressive artists, in their own way.
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Yet I often see these comparisons of Dylan to the great writers of history, and I think that's what doesn't sit quite right with me. And that is, I think, what I'm trying to express. I didn't make the comparison, but when I see it I don't quite buy it.
But I can see I have my work cut out for me here. Might have been easier over at the Goodreads forum.
