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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
However, even if one accepts the argument that "proper" poetry must hold up without any accompanying music (and I do see the merits of this argument: there are - and even Dylan has written - lots of lyrics that are an embarrassment if read out loud), I contend that Dylan has written quite a few lyrics that are great poetry and work very well without the music.
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Agreed entirely. I'm very surprised that there are still some people arguing that lyrics aren't poetry. Heck, I went to a very conservative school, and even way back in the 1980s we were studying song lyrics in senior English Literature classes.
As for the rather tangential question of whether they've been published in paper book form:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lyrics-1962.../dp/0743231015