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Are they not literature because they are songs? But wasn't all poetry sung originally. And didn't Blake sing his poems--or some of them. How would you define literature, Jamie?




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Jamie McKendrick wrote:

Going back to that topic, I see all the arguments why the Nobel award to him could be celebrated, I've also listened to his songs devotedly for more than 40 years, but I still don't think of them, whatever Ricks says, as 'literature' - admittedly a recent category.
Jamie