I think genius is a tricky word!!!! Clearly a genius is a person who creates a masterpiece not just once, but many times, so a one hit wonder   song, even if measured by dylans material was far better than dylans material, does not make the writer of that song a genius.

I think dylan did consistently create enough original material to warrent the title genius. The wealth of material he has produced is the subject of scholars. He is in fact the only song writer who has a place at my local library in both the music section and the poetry section.

When we all listen to dylan, as i am now for instance listening to chimes of freedom, you get the irratating feeling that it is beyond our, and by 'our' I mean those of us who write songs, but we get that feeling that songs like chimes of freedom, and the countless others by dylan are beyond the normal, or even the superhuman-norm of many great artists.

Dylans grasp for some of the greatest tunes that wrap around his lyrics so well, his voice like no other voice that seems possessed by the lyrics he sings at any given moment, and those lyrics, those lyrics that leave us silent wondering , "what just happened". I think only a genius can leave that trail of wonder behind him. Dylan is a genius, he is beyond the norm, and goes further than even the exceptional norm, and he has for decades consistently wrote melodies and lyrics that continue to astound. Not Dark Yet and Suger Baby spring to mind.