/lit/ - Literature

BTW, I have a hunch that the Nobel Prize for Literature is hogwash nowadays. I took a look at the winners and it seems to have been dominated by cutesy pomo tripe for the last several decades. But I could be wrong.

Back to Bob Dylan, though. He wrote some good stuff before he became a religious nut for some reason (or pretended to be one for several decades, who knows). Yes, he has a big advantage over conventional poets in that he put his words to music. But if that's not a dealbreaker for the concept of comparing him to non-songwriter poets, then let's ponder this matter a bit...

What's a 20th century poem that's better than Dylan's best?