“The relationship between poetry and pop music is caught up in ongoing debates about definition and categorisation. It is often described in terms of rivalry – John Keats versus Bob Dylan is the favoured pairing, in a ding-dong bout between supposedly high and low cultures. Dylan is certainly a better standard-bearer than Vanilla Ice, but his lyrics – lacking the complexities and nuances of Keats’s poems – tend to reinforce notions that the poet’s art belongs to an altogether different sphere of creativity.” – Financial Times