/lit/ - Literature

Greatest writer of all time
>Shakespeare

Greatest Poet of all time in all genres
>Shakespeare (if the plays count as poetry)

Greatest Epic Poet
>Homer (sorry, Dante)

Greatest lyric poet (that is, not dramatic or epic)
>Emily Dickinson (her poems are better than Shakespeare’s sonnets)

Greatest Novelist
>Tolstoy

Greatest short story writer
>Chekhov (Tolstoy in second place)

Wiser writer in the history of literature (the one who knew human beings better)
>Chekhov

Most promising writer reaped by death before doing all he could accomplish
>Büchner

Greater artistic capacity wasted (in the field of literature)
>Joyce with Finnegans Wake

Greatest and most beautiful religious text in the world (it’s not about truth; it’s an aesthetic evaluation)
> Book of Job

Greatest philosopher
>Buddha (after the division of philosophy and science his teachings remain the most profound, useful and wise)

Greatest artist
>Michelangelo

Greatest Musician
>Mozart (maybe is a tie with Beethoven, with Bach at second place)

Most promising artist who died too soon (maybe in all fieldsf art)
> Schubert

Greatest movie director
>Orson Welles (Shakespeare did a great deal to his brain; also, if he had the funds he would have accomplished many other great things)

Greatest screenwriter
>Paddy Chayefsky (Clifford Odets could be the man if he had other great plots like Sweet Smell of Success to work with - Billy Wilder doesn't count because he mostly worked sucking the creative fluids from his collaborators)

Greatest scientist
>Newton

Greatest psychologist and sociologist
>Darwin