Steve ~~ Not too sure about 'end of'. I should have thought so at one time; but am coming more and more to find Dylan well worth taking seriously as a poet: a lot of his apparently facile versification goes pretty deep on examination. Professor Christopher Ricks, holder of chairs at Oxford, Cambridge, and now Boston, rates him very highly as a poet; has even published a book on him, in addition to his distinguished work on Milton. He happened to be a Fellow of my Cambridge college for a while, and one of my most pleasant memories is of discussing 'Hattie Carroll' with him over lunch once some years ago.

In passing, comparisons might be made with another, English, singer-songwriter, largely of humorously satirical songs but also occasionally of a deeply spiritual Christian nature ~ Sydney Carter, writer of 'Lord Of The Dance' as well as of 'Tobacco, tobacco, I hate you I do' and 'It isn't much fun for a mixed up old man'.

~M~