Originally posted by french frank
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Dylan does channel Burns in one obvious homage (Highlands) and performed a Burns song (Phillis the Fair) in 1988, for which factoid I'm grateful to Michael Gray's monumental "Song and Dance Man lll . Burns was an extraordinary original genius, from a simple background, home-schooled at least to start with...Dylan, also an original genius IMV, was, rather, well-educated and a voracious mopper-up of literary influences. Not a plagiarist - rather, a lot of what he had read or absorbed was forged anew in the extraordinary crucible of his particular genius. Not being a professor of poetry myself I'd merely suggest further reading, see above
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