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Culture shock for the dead poets society; John Keats versus Bob Dylan - Dennis Ellam reports.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19980328
Author:Ellam, Dennis

The best poets are dead poets, by popular consent.

So it was a courageous thing for the Culture Secretary Mr Chris Smith to offer the view this week that a dead English poet could be equalled by a living American one.

The works of Bob Dylan, he said, have as much "validity" as those of John Keats.

In the event, during an interview he gave to the Spectator magazine, a trap had been opened up for Mr Smith and he cheerfully plunged into it.

Commentators, pundits and critics have rushed after him to argue the point, whether a "star" of contemporary popular culture, ...

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