Queen are still second to The Beatles on the Guinness Hit Albums list for total number of weeks in the UK chart with 1126 to the Fab Four's 1180. Laid end to end, that's more than 21 chart years. The answer is no, Keats was a better poet, though Dylan was a better folk-rock singer. If you want something spiritual and profound to take you out of yourself it is a mistake to go to a Rolling Stone gig. Similarly, there is not much point in going to a Bach concert if what you want is a blast of entertainment and an excuse to dance.
Television gets it in the neck from both sides.
They would smile pityingly at BBC2's current Sunday evening series Renaissance and dismiss it as elitist. Yet another example of dumbing-down, they would say. But there is no contradiction nor any difficulty in enjoying both. The time to start complaining would be when television provided only one or the other. Interestingly the first of the two programmes, Queen For A Night, made by Bob Smeaton, makes it clear that the members of this extraordinary rock band suffered themselves from a version of the Murdoch effect within the world of rock music.