I don't see anything for Dylan to acknowledge. A handfull, at best, of non-descript and unoriginal words and phrases that weren't original when Timrod used them to begin with? Was Timrod the first person ever to rhyme flower and hour? The first to call flowers frail? Dylan "took" nothing distinctive from Timrod, only, at best, the echo of a few stock phrases, which he used for entirely different meanings and purposes. I daresay that most poems at Erato could be "proven" to use at least as many phrases and words used by other poets as Dylan has used from Timrod, without any allusions intended.
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