/lit/ - Literature

LEWIS CARROLL IS THE ONLY GOOD AUTHOR THAT BRITAIN HAS EVER PRODUCED, AND, ARGUABLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT; ALL OTHERS ARE «STUFFY», SOPORIFEROUS, KITSCHY SCHLOCKERS: A UNICORN IN THE PIGSTY.

>>19754228

England ruined my life

>>19754255
Glad to see some Carroll-Bro's out here, but is there really no other good Bri'ish author?

>>19754295
>... is there really no other good Bri'ish author?


REALLY, NOT REALLY.

Will Self.
But that was a long time ago.

Edward Dutton is based and redpilled

>>19754228
Terry Pratchett makes for great comfy reading.

>>19754314
if there ever was a hack, it was Will Self

>>19754228
Orwell. He was red pilled about the democrats.

The best British writer was Polish

>>19754597
He's a smart cookie though. His stuff was fun to read, and his speeches and debates portray a depth of thought that's all but given way to low brow by-the-script chat that you hear from most supposed luminaries.

>>19754228
Kazuo Ishiguro

Ishiguro, Dickens and the Brontes I think are the only really great prose writers. Something about the Anglo inability to be serious prevents the creation of philosophical materworks like Dostoyevsky or Mishima. Almost all English writers have their tongue firmly in cheek, they joke with the audience, they address serious topics only obliquely. Sometimes it works really well (Dickens) and sometimes it comes across as just fluff.

Anglos seem to excel much more at poetry, the national poets of England are like a best of list for poetry generally:

- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Blake
- Wordsworth
- Byron
- Hardy

>>19754228
Evelyn Waugh. Underrated by this site. Pretty based cynical satirist.

Henry Green

>>19755405
Not even the best Green in English lit

>>19755411
Who is the best Green then?

>>19755417

Graham Greene

Powys is very underrated. He flits in and out of print, but seems to retain a decently large base of admirers given that I still find him selling well in second hand markets.

Chesterton for me

>>19755417
certainly it's john green

>>19755462
what's his power level?

Britain seems to have a talent for producing nature writers, J.A. Baker seems to be their patron saint

>>19754228
John Stuart Mill
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Percy Shelley
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
William Blake
William Shakespeare
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Gaskell
Oscar Wilde
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Dryden
John Donne
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Orwell
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Aphra Behn
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Zadie Smith
Christopher Hitchens
Salman Rushdie
Doris Lessing
Kazuo Ishiguro
J. R. R. Tolkien
E. M. Forster
G. K. Chesterton
Virginia Woolf
Henry James
William James
Francis Bacon
John Locke
Edmund Burke
Jeremy Bentham
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Johnson
Ben Johnson
James Boswell
Sir Walter Scott
Anthony Trollope
Philippa Foot
Thomas Hobbes
C. S. Lewis
Derek Parfit
Henry Sidgwick
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Gissing
Ford Maddox Ford
Bertrand Russell
D. H. Lawrence
Aldous Huxley
Malcolm Lowry
Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh

>>19755571
>no Geoffrey Hill
Shit list

>>19755529
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview14

This says a bit about him and the appeal of some of his works. In my own words though I’d say he out D.H. Lawrences Lawrence.

This guy

>>19755571
>Oscar Wilde
>Laurence Sterne
ahem...

>>19755849
>le potato poster

>>19754228
On my personal favourite British authors list, the top three are Tolkein, Terry Pratchett, and me. It goes sharply downhill from there, and believe me, I'm no literary genius.

>>19754291
Yes, it does that to most people. The only mercy is that we live in an age where you usually have to visit England for it to take effect - up until a hundred years or so, England came to you. But of course that's no help to the poor, benighted souls who were born here.

>>19755976
>le self hating bong
The worst of the British race

>>19754289
Interesting rec, where to start?

>>19755462
All three Powys brothers deserve to be read.

>>19755462
Powys's novels are powerful, to say the least. George Steiner once claimed that Powys was the only twentieth-century English writer on par with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Гaлкoвcкий

>>19756485
Coглaceн

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>>19756419
I’d say he’s in a league of his own. He defies the canon of the modern world. I’d almost argue he is best placed in a tradition of romances, or along side something like Sydney’s Arcadia. Truly astonishing that he is as neglected as he is. I can understand why people wouldn’t like him, but he definitely manages what few other novelists do; he is always interesting.

>>19754426
That's a big bottle, a big hat, a big coat, and a big dog

>>19755397
Indeed.

Britain is easily the greatest literature nation ever. It is quite simply peerless. Anyone that disagrees is a pseud.

PG Wodehouse is THE writer for understanding the soul of England

>>19758112
France and Greece are on the same level. As was Russia in the 19th century.

bumperino

English lit is underrated

>>19755996
The most important of Skene's other works are: editions of John of Fordun's Chronica gentis Scotorum (Edinburgh, 1871–1872); of the Four Ancient Books of Wales (Edinburgh, 1868); of the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots (Edinburgh, 1867); and of Adomnán's Vita S. Columbae (Edinburgh, 1874); an Essay on the Coronation Stone of Scone (Edinburgh, 1869); and Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene (Aberdeen, 1887), Celtic Scotland (1880) One of Skene's harshest critics was the Scottish philologist Alexander Macbain.

>>19759759
Victorian era Britain is regarded higher than almost any other time in history. Even in Russia it was only really two titans, Britain had at least half a dozen.

>>19758513
France is the only nation you mention that even comes close. Greece was obviously stronger many hundreds of years ago but has been relatively week when compared to many other countries ever since. Russia has only a gloomy bin fire of a tradition. Where is their Tolkien? Where is their Wodehouse?

>>19761126
>Tolkien
You mean the guy who desecrated foreign epic literature for his kitschy mashup fantasy? I'm not sure the Russians have someone like this.
>Wodehouse
Meme. A literally who for every non-Brit.