To be or not to be a Swiftie, one of the millions of Taylor Swift fans around the world. That is the question eminent Shakespeare scholar and former Oxford professor Sir Jonathan Bate answered with a resounding yes the first time he heard her music. The lyrics of Taylor Swift's song "Love Story" about a girl on a balcony and a boy who comes to rescue her, naturally captured the attention of a man who can stay up until three in the morning talking to Sir Ian McKellen about King Lear. Sir Bate argues that Taylor Swift is more than just a best selling pop star, she has literary sensibility worthy of comparison to some of history's greatest writers.
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