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>> No.22786311

>>22786306
I want to be a pleb though
I should be grateful I have family friends and happiness. That should be all the pray err we I need

>> No.22786314

>>22786306
Lots of hacks & mediocrities there. It can easily be reduced to 10-12

>> No.22786317

>>22786311
STOP POSTING
I wanna scream and shout and let it ot
Scream and shout and American jam

>> No.22786636

>>22786306
Horrid list. Really digging. English has a maximum of maybe five good writers.

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>>22786306
Why can't you faggots learn from Berkshire Hathaway and make shit simple? how am I supposed to read this?

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>>22786306
I am grateful, but I am sad I can't read Greek and my Latin is terrible.

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>>22786636
You. Are. A. Crackhead.

>> No.22786656

>>22786306
> no PG Wodehouse
shit chart, really

>> No.22786750

>>22786306
As a white, non eastern-european man, being born a native English speaker is actually a sub-par deal, because it robs you of the other language(s) you would otherwise get thrown in for free.
What I'm saying is that because of the internet and modern culture, English basically gets thrown in free with whatever else you've got.
Except if you're french, or maybe german, I guess.
So really what I'm saying applies only to a small handful of countries, fuck you

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>>22786306
>terry pratchett
>literature

>> No.22787349

>>22786314
Please do it, anon.

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>>22786306
You should be glad you speak American.

>> No.22787548

>>22787349
Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, Pope, Coleridge, Chaucher, Keats, Blake, Donne, E. Brontë, Browne, Fielding

>> No.22787566

English is such a scientific and impersonal language. There is not gracefulness to it. It’s dry and bitter.

>> No.22787599

>>22787548
Dryden and Marvell are mediocre to you? Swift? Gay? Wordsworth wasn't a good poet? I'd argue Carroll is perfectly fine to introduce to your children. Not everything has to be serious literature which is why I'd also argue Mary Shelley or Agatha Christie wrote perfectly fine works. England had good philosophers too but I won't even bother arguing that because there is a strong anti-Anglo bias on this website even though I tend to dislike philosophers like Bentham as well.

>> No.22788705

>>22787599
Swift's not on the list (nor Sterne – supposedly ‘Angloirish’)

>> No.22789068

>>22787548
No. No. No. You cut far too many. Very foolish.

>> No.22789642

>>22789068
What else should stay?

>> No.22789765

>>22786306
>Literature
>Hobbes (philosophy isn't literature)
>Locke (philosophy isn't literature)
>St. Bede (religious philosophy isn't literature)
>Ockham (philosophy isn't literature)
>Isaac Newton (science isn't literature)
>Thomas Paine (political activism isn't literature)
>Samuel Johnson (Dictionaries aren't literature; literary criticism isn't literature)
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>Edward Gibbon (history isn't literature)
>John Bunyan (religious philosophy isn't literature)
>Thomas Malory (translation isn't literature)
>Thomas Browne (scientific history isn't literature)
Shall I finish going through the list of these supposed "literary" figures?

Meanwhile, French literature is the most influential world literature. So much so, that it completely influenced Anglo literature to the degree that Arthurian legends are actually French in origin.