HOW DOES DYLAN COMPARE TO OTHER NOBEL GREATS?

WB Yeats, ‘When You Are Old’

How many loved your moments of glad grace And loved your beauty with love false or true But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you And loved the sorrows of your changing face

Bob Dylan, ‘Tangled Up in Blue’

And glowed like burning coal Pouring off of every page Like it was written in my soul from me to you Tangled up in blue

Seamus Heaney, ‘When All the Others Were Away at Mass’

When all the others were away at Mass I was all hers as we peeled potatoes

Bob Dylan, ‘Million Dollar Bash’

I took my potatoes Down to be mashed Then I made it over to That million dollar bash

TS Eliot, ‘The Naming of Cats’

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have three different names

Bob Dylan, ‘Cat’s In the Well’

The cat’s in the well the wolf is looking down He got a big bushy tail dragging all over the ground

Pablo Neruda, ‘I Do Not Love You’

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose Or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off I love you as certain dark things are to be loved In secret, between the shadow and the soul

Bob Dylan, ‘Wedding Song’

I love you more than ever, more than time and more than love I love you more than money and more than the stars above Love you more than madness, more than waves upon the sea Love you more than life itself, you mean that much to me