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Article #811984Re: "Bob Dylan bad review
From: General Zod
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 13:01
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 13:01
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NancyGene wrote: > > An article > We love what the author of the piece says about poets: > "Great poets write great poems. They donβt compose two or three great lines, then spackle the gaps between them with verbal polyfilla. Philip Larkin would leave half-finished poems in a drawer for decades until he found the right lines to complete them. Letβs reserve the word βpoetβ for writers who respect language enough to do things like that." > https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/bob-dylan-a-great-poet-a-great-delusion-more-like-it-20220502-p5ahrz.html So you found a hatchet job on the mighty Bob Dylan... it isn't the first, I daresay, Nancy G.
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