Unlikely as the comparison may seem, it is a sign of the scale on which Wolf needs to be considered.
The comparison with Pollock seems almost beside the point.
At least at the top level of cable, the comparison seems to have validity.
The comparison with 1974 is a fair one, though, and seems to give pointers to the future in 2010.
The comparison didn't seem to do justice to either man.
Things got worse when comparisons of results seemed to indicate that the poles must have been in different places at the same time!
But the 1984 comparison seems to be spreading.
The comparison to blacking up seems to me to founder on two points.
Linguistic analysis and a comparison to other works known to be from his hand seem to consolidate this tradition.
Not of course that the comparisons seemed in any way apposite at the time.