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hey guys, what i really need here is a list of 10 universally esteemed writers, preferably within the past two centuries and preferably american, although i expect a fair amount of divergence.

>> No.1184230

>universally esteemed
>American
Good luck, buddy.

>> No.1184235

Vonnegut
Faulkner
Joyce (Irish but who gives a fuck)
Fitzgerald

Those are the only ones I've hardly heard anything bad about. I guess Steinbeck can go in there but I've heard a little more complaints about him.

>> No.1184236

maybe "universally esteemed" was too strong of a requirement. i really just mean part of the american canon, in the same way that fitzgerald, hemingway, faulkner and etc are.

>> No.1184239

>>1184235
I have no clue why I made that a sage, lol.

>> No.1184261

dude wikipedia it there are a bunch

faulkner
vonnegut
fitzgerald
hemmingway
twain
poe
steinbeck
henry james
melville and hawthorne
thoreau and emmerson

and then sooo much much more

>> No.1184275

>>1184261

I always forget that Henry James is American. He just seems like such a britfag to me.

>> No.1184282

>>1184235
Add Pynchon

>> No.1184299

>>1184275
that's cuz he wrote in england. most of his characters are americans who travel to europe. idk he was born in New York, that's all I know

>> No.1184315

>>1184275
I agree!

Some of my favorite American writers of the past two centuries:
John Steinbeck
David Foster Wallace
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut
Walt Whitman
Thomas Pynchon
Sinclair Lewis
Ken Kesey
Mark Twain
Edwin Arlington Robinson
John Updike

>> No.1184324

Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Turgenev
Bulgakov
Lermontov
Chekhov
Gogol
Pushkin
Nabokov
Solzhenitsyn
Zamyatin

>> No.1184345

>>1184324

herp derpovich

>> No.1184383

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Frost
Henry David Thoreau
Toni Morrison
Allen Ginsberg


these are the kinds of people taught in high school classrooms, if that's what you're getting at

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>>1184324

>universally esteemed writers
>Solzhenitsyn

>> No.1184445

No Stephen Crane yet? Crane is awesome even though he died at 29.

>> No.1184513

My favorite Americans from the past two centuries:

William Faulkner
Herman Melville
Cormac McCarthy
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Edgar Allen Poe
Mark Twain
H P Lovecraft

>> No.1184534

>>1184445
Eye dialect is for faggots.

>> No.1184550

>>1184383
I cant stand Robert Frost's shitty unoriginal cliche poems.

>> No.1184562

>>1184550
Don't read them, problem solved.

>> No.1184565

>>1184562
I tried that.
Pseudo-intellectual high school student.
Required reading.
Forced to read them and pretend to like them.

>> No.1184566

10 universally esteemed American writers within the past two centuries? Okay. Nobody's *universally* esteemed but this is as close as I think you'll get.

Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Henry James
Mark Twain
F Scott Fitzgerald
Wallace Stevens
W.H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
Cormac McCarthy
August Wilson

>> No.1184579

>>1184565
Well I sure as hell don't remember reading them in high school, then again I don't remember reading in high school.

>> No.1184586

>>1184579
Already read "Shitty woods with paths"
AnD "pretty white trees with snow"

>> No.1184587

>>1184566
What? That's not even close to right. The list is bad and you should feel bad.