Bob Dylan is the central literary figure of the past 100 years.
>>9716802
Dunno about 100 years, but not a horrible choice.
T.S. Eliot is though. Every work after The Wasteland was in reaction to The Wasteland.
>>9716802
he isn't literary.
there's a reason that there's a /mu/ and a /lit/.
consider it proven.
OP btfo.
>>9716837
>he isn't literary
you might actually be a dummy
>>9716856
see
visions of johanna
desolation row
>>9716861
see
red solo cup
as good as i once was
>>9716856
>The Norton Anthology includes him, but he's not literature
>The Nobel committee chose him, but he's not literature
>I know better than legions of well-read people
>He plays music, so he can't possibly be reciting poetry
>>9716873
now you're getting it.
go back to /mu/.
>>9716878
I am the /lit/ person here u dum/b/y.
>>9716884
>he puts up a toby keith tier musician up as the central literary figure of the past 100 years
>he thinks he's /lit/
have i got news for you.
why you gotta diss toby keith on the fourth of july dude?
>>9716902
hey, i love toby keith, he's a great MUSICIAN. i don't put shit on pedestals where it doesn't belong.
next thing OP the faggot is going to start spouting is that kanye west is an inseperable part of the western canon.
>>9716916
As OP I humbly request you get out of my head
Bob Dylan's songs are "hymns" of the day, consisting of melodies and verse of mediocre workmanship that its public considers comforting + inspiring because it expresses already ingrained assumptions about life.