‘Taylor Swift is a real poet’

An knowledgeable on William Shakespeare sang praises of Taylor Swift and in contrast her with one in every of historical past’s best writers, the Bard whereas including she is a “actual poet.”

Writing a bit in The Sunday Occasions, the scholar Sir Jonathan Bate, a former Shakespeare professor at Warwick College, mentioned that the megastar is greater than “simply high-class showbiz” and has a “literary sensibility” that was apparent from her debut album.

Titled, Why Taylor Swift is a literary large, he penned that he had “the most effective nights of [his] life” at one in every of Swift’s concert events.

“Listening to her lyrics, which many of the rapturous (primarily feminine) viewers appeared to know by coronary heart, I got here away with affirmation of a thought I first had 15 years in the past: this isn’t simply high-class showbiz; Taylor Swift is an actual poet,” he added.

The professor famous that he first noticed references to Shakespeare in her monitor, “You had been Romeo, you had been throwin’ pebbles/ And my daddy mentioned, ‘Steer clear of Juliet.’”

The tutorial known as the soundtrack an “virtually excellent pop track, with its catchy hook, driving rhythm, and ingenious use of banjo and mandolin.”