Here is from the pages Harold Bloom wrote to describe the Genius of Homer in his book Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundered Exeplary Creative Minds.

Try changing the name Homer to Dylan and see what you get.

"There is a necessary oddity in speaking of the genius of Homer, because much scholarship teaches us that he was a tradition, rather than a particular person. And yet the two epics are highly organized works, put together by a poet-editor whose genius is beyond question....Homer was first an auditor, and then a storyteller burnishing inherited tales that he himself had heard recited, and subsequently improved upon his own recitations..... I do not think that committees create great poems, and I think that one can surmise that Homer, whoever he was, first perfected his poem’s oral version and then wrote it out, presumably revising it in the process.....Homer was perhaps more an end than a beginning: he perfected an ancient performative art, while implicitly denying his indebtedness, whether to prior generations or to contemporary rivals. He had to be just one of many editor-singers of verse tales, chanters who went about selling their performances.....However many formulae and stock phrases Homer employed, it seems absurd to me that we assume no originalities on his own part, in metaphors and in organization, and in his prideful sense of self as an artist of composition, as well as of performances. "