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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

>> No.17850863

>>17850848
>greatest and most beautiful religious text in the world
>>Book of Job
>the pseudery never stops

>> No.17850908

jt;dr, etc.

>> No.17850915

>Greatest writer of all time
Me :)
>Greatest Poet of all time in all genres
Baudelaire
>Greatest Epic Poet
Homer (The Divine Comedy is not an epic)
>Greatest lyric poet (that is, not dramatic or epic)
Char
>Greatest Novelist
Flaubert
>Greatest short story writer
Kafka (Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in second place)
>Wiser writer in the history of literature (the one who knew human beings better)
Proust
>Most promising writer reaped by death before doing all he could accomplish
Lautréamont
>Greater artistic capacity wasted (in the field of literature)
Queneau
>Greatest and most beautiful religious text in the world (it’s not about truth; it’s an aesthetic evaluation)
John 1:1
>Greatest philosopher
Heraclitus
>Greatest artist
Brueghel
>Greatest Musician
Bach
>Most promising artist who died too soon (maybe in all fieldsf art)
Lautréamont
>Greatest movie director
The Tark
>Greatest screenwriter
Bergman
>Greatest scientist
Pascal
>Greatest psychologist and sociologist
I don't care
>Greatest faggot
OP

>> No.17850924

>>17850848
very good op, that is, if you are trying to define midwit takes.

>> No.17850936

>greatest writer
Shakespeare
>greatest poet
Shakespeare and Elliot
>greatest epic poet
Dante or Milton
>greatest lyric poet
Whitman
>Greatest novelist
Dostoevsky and if you want something more contemporary, DFW
>Greatest short story writer
Hemingway
>wiser writer
Cringe
>most promising writer that died early
Dazai
>best director
Tarantino fuck you
>greatest philosopher
Neitzsche

>> No.17850951

>>17850848
Didn't ask, don't care.

>> No.17850969 [DELETED] 

>>17850848
>(if the plays count as poetry)
do you realize he also wrote actual poetry, not just plays?

>> No.17851034

>>17850848
Where's the greatest composer?

>> No.17851069
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>>17850848
>Greatest lyric poet (that is, not dramatic or epic)
>>Emily Dickinson
>Greatest philosopher
>>Buddha

>> No.17851113

And with Shakespeare you guys mean Francis Bacon, right?

>> No.17851141
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17851141

>>17850848
>greatest this, greatest that.
Have the greatest day and stop categorizing such subjectivity

>> No.17851144

>>17850936
Yo dis nigga actually likes tarantino lmao

>> No.17851153

>>17851144
and Nietzsche lmao (though he can't spell his name)

>> No.17851154

>Greatest retard
OP

>> No.17851163

>>17851113
I will have you know that I raped your mother. You are my natural son. Leave this place, it's not for those of a base nature, and you, being both a anti-stratfordist and a bastard, have no place here

>> No.17851166

>>17851154
kek

>> No.17851169

>>17851141
This might be the first man I've ever seen you post thats not Nietzsche or some shit

>> No.17851234

>>17851163
Did you use all holes of my mother?

>> No.17851235

>>17850848
>Bach at second place
ngmi
>>17851144
ikr lol
>>17851154
kek

>> No.17851261

>>17851153
Seethe

>> No.17851304

>>17850848
Spotted the Amerimutt

>> No.17852151

>>17850924
>if you are trying to define midwit takes.

What are the true patrician takes?

>> No.17852327

>>17851154
based

>> No.17852400

>>17850908
what does it mean?!!??!

>> No.17852412

What's wrong with each one of OP's choices?

>> No.17852431

>>17850848
Every answer is more pseud than the last.

>> No.17852513

>>17850936
>Tarantino fuck you

You should kill yourself

>> No.17852566

>>17851169
Graeber was a bro. I post lots of males. Been posting a couple Peter Falk’s Colombo recently, Kropotkin, Bakunin, Vidal, Miyazaki, Paine.

>>17852513
Die in a hail of gunfire to Zamfir’s Lonely Shepherd

>> No.17852610

>>17852566
>butterflu likes tarantino
Everything you've ever said has been invalidated by your absolute GARBAGE taste in cinema
What next, zack snyder? lol

>> No.17852625

>>17850848
> nothing of any cultural value has happened in the past 100 years.

>> No.17852659

>>17852625
Joyce and faulkner

>> No.17852909

>>17852610
Spike Lee, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Agnès Varda, Terry Gilliam, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jim Henson, Věra Chytilová, Ridley Scott, and on and on.

>> No.17853462

>>17850848
Yellow Fever calling und I arrive on time with my worn out punchcard. Hootie patootie! Such a lush lagoon.

>> No.17853574

>greatest musician
>Mozart
Lmao

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>>17850848
>Bach at second place

>> No.17854666

I saw her play the Brahms D minor concerto. She almost fell out of her dress when she took her bows, it was pretty kino. Not a bad pianist either

>> No.17854679

>>17850848
jt;dr

>> No.17854884

>>17854666

Can you post the link to the YouTube video, Satanical Trips Anon?

>> No.17854947

>>17854884
Sorry it wasn’t recorded I was at the actual concert. Here’s Khatia Buniatishvilli

https://youtu.be/3jbHbDena_U

>> No.17855101

>>17850848
Pushkin is a better poet and a superior psychologist to Shakespeare. But maybe Shakespeare is, over all, a better writer.

>> No.17855237

>>17851141
you have a great day too

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>>17850848
You forgot greatest dramatist of all time.

>> No.17855302

>>17850848
>greatest lyric poet
>emily dickinson

lol so you've only read English language?

>> No.17855308

Allegedly you can read most of Emily Dickinsons poems to the theme of Pokémon and it fits cause it’s in the same meter

>> No.17855317

The greatest writer on here is the guys who would reference his own OC in conversation. You know the post.

>> No.17855333

>>17850848
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQyoD3kGwA
I watched this 100 times, wish the video was louder

>> No.17855350

>>17854947
>Sorry it wasn’t recorded I was at the actual concert.

You lucky duck.

How’s her ass in real life?

>> No.17855407

>>17855350
She’s not really my type but she has a great body. I also was just really focused on the music lol.

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>>17854947
Want Georgian beb. Give me SpütnikV, Khatia, pls.

>> No.17855763

>>17850848
Retard.
>>17850915
Based.

>> No.17855774

>>17855475
Thats it :3

>> No.17855861

>>17855475
Look at that beautiful thick GEVRGIAN hair! Stalin (pbuh) would be proud.

>> No.17856942

I actually agree with most of OP’s pics. Would just change Mozart with Beethoven and Welles with Kurosawa.

>> No.17856953

People that write Shakespeare are obvious anglophones/anglophiles stuck in their own anglocentric bubble.

I pity you.

>> No.17857151

>>17850848

Greatest writer of all time
>Moses

Greatest Poet of all time in all genres
>David

Greatest Epic Poet
>[redacted]

Greatest Lyric Poet
>David

Greatest short story writer
>[redacted]

Wisest writer in the history of literature
>Moses

Most promising writer reaped by death before doing all he could accomplish
>Moses (the last few lines of the Torah had to be written by Joshua)

Greater artistic capacity wasted (in the field of literature)
>Joshua with Joshua

Greatest and most beautiful religious text in the world
>Book of Job

Greatest philosopher
>Solomon (for Ecclesiastes)

Greatest artist
>G-d

Greatest Musician
>David

Most promising artist who died too soon
>Saul

The remaining ones don't matter

>> No.17857325

>>17856953
>People that write Shakespeare are obvious anglophones/anglophiles stuck in their own anglocentric bubble.

Don't you think he might be among the greatest, and that maybe it's a matter of taste wheter one goes for him, or Dante, or Homer, or Tolstoy, or Cao Xueqin, or Chekhov?

I really don't see Shakespeare ranked as number 1 as something absurd.

>> No.17857882

>>17855333
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQyoD3kGwA

she's hot as fuck here