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...if Dylan is indeed plagiarizing from a poet as bad as Henry Timrod, Julia A. Moore (adequately parodied by Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn) may be next. Or, for that matter, James Whitcome Riley or Edgar Guest.
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Nah. Parody is a different thing entirely. If Dylan was parodying Timrod, fair enough, but was he? Doesn't look like it to me (though I'd have to hear the song). Twain's parody, on the other hand, was presumably recognised as such, as is Wendy Cope's nursery version of Eliot.
[This message has been edited by Mark Granier (edited September 21, 2006).]