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Old 12-20-2020, 06:29 PM
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I strongly disagree. Plus, they're not novelists, they're not writing plays, they're writing songs. You're comparing apples to grapes, and I'm not saying which is which.
That's a fair point. But the line between poetry and songs isn't so much, if anything at all.

But again, I started this thread because of my hesitance to recognize songwriters as literary greats.

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Just as skateboards and space shuttles are in the same "category."
Exactly. When was a skateboard prize every awarded to a space shuttler or a space shuttle award give to someone on a skateboard.

Yet here we have Dylan and Yeats winning the same honor.
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