David, your remark that these poets and writers were "pretty inconsequential" was what I was taking issue with and not with your appreciation of Dylan which I happen to share. Your explanation - "that we are talking...not about influencing a few poets who teach at universities" is pretty close to 'gibberish', to use your own word, but it's also weirdly uninformed to presume Szymborska and Transtromer have no readers that aren't poets and academics, and not just in Poland and Sweden. (Not to mention the prose writers you dismiss.) Who teaches at university anyway? Well, not me nor Michael either. And If we did would that disqualify us?
Even less enlightened,
Jamie
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 18:10, David Lace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Not measuring it in gold discs but cultural influence.
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> Those poets might have influence but we are talking breadth and time-scale with Dylan--not about influencing a few poets who teach at universities etc.
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> I'm with Jamie on this one. You can't measure importance in gold discs. Like him or not - I do - , Tranströmer (2011) was a hugely influential poet, a world poet.
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> http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/stone-sober.html
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> I would say Svetlana Alexeyevitch is a pretty important writer, too. I can't pretend to know much about some of the others. But I fully believe that if I read one book by each of them it would be a serious expansion of my world.
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