more literary criticism

Samuel Coleridge said this about Wordsworth, and I think it applies to Zappa:

"Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, which they were for a long time described as being: had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of thought; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the parodies and pretended imitations of them; they must have sunk at once, a dead weight, into the slough of oblivion, and dragged the preface along with them."
- The Great Critics: An Anthology of Literary Criticism, pg. 528 (ed. Smith & Parks)