I just found this thread. Happy, too, that it's here and up for discussion.
My best wish would be for the Nobel Academy to create a new category to acknowledge the many gifted song poets. I think it's artistically an apples-to-oranges comparison and does a disservice to the field of literature to include in the Nobel Prize for Literature, in my opinion... Yet lyrical song writing is a powerful force influencing all societies as much as any other form of written language.
Someone suggested that Dylan's lyrics do not hold the same weight when separated from the music and I think that's unfair. It would be like draining the color out of Picasso's paintings and asking if it still has the same impact.
Others I think are deserving of such recognition would be Leonard Cohen, the work of Lennon & McCartney, Antony Hegarty, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits.
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