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RE Len Gardner’s assertion that Robert Hilburn’s opinion that Bob Dylan is “the most important songwriter of the 20th century” is absurd [Letters, Nov. 18]: I have heard of all the songwriters that you mentioned, sir [Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington]; I even like some of them.

They all were wonderful artists, but can it be said that they changed the culture of this country the way Dylan did?

FRED LUCERO

Oxnard