Swift’s songs will now be read aloud alongside work by literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Keats.
The University of Texas at Austin is now offering students a songwriting course focused on the 11-time Grammy Award winner’s approach to crafting lyrics.
Swift’s songs will now be read aloud alongside work by literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Frost, and Keats,“Let’s turn that Easter Egg hunting and reading in detail to academic purposes,” the university’s English department wrote in a “Swift is an intelligent and talented songwriter, and her writing skills are what made me focus on her,” Scala told
“I want to take what Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Swift draws on richer literary traditions in her songwriting,” Scala says.
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