According to music-news.com Bob Dylan has been accused of borrowing lyrics for his latest album "Modern Times" from the works of a Nineteenth Century US poet
An American academic claims that lines from the song "When The Deal Goes Down" are lifted directly from a poem by Timrod, a native of South Carolina, who died in 1867 at the age of 39.
Speaking to the New York Times, Walter Brian Cisco, who wrote a 2004 biography on Timrod, said that the lines "More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours," in Dylan's song, bear a distinct resemblance to the former's poem "Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night".
The poem contains the lines:
"A round of precious hours
Oh! here, where in that summer noon I basked
And strove, with logic frailer than the flowers."
Cisco said: ""No doubt about it, there has been some borrowing going on."
However, he added: "I'm glad Timrod is getting some recognition."
Dylan does not acknowledge any debt to Timrod in the liner notes to "Modern Times", although some fans have noted that the title does include the letters of the poet's surname
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