Epochal English Language writers

[Anonymous No.11543418]

Write a definitive list of all the writers and work that had a strong definitive effect on the English language and it's literature. Don't choose your favourites, try to be objective.

[Anonymous No.11543604]

POETS
Beowulf writer
Chaucer
Spenser
Shakespeare
Milton
Pope
Wordsworth
Keats
Whitman
Dickinson
Yeats
Pound
TS Eliot


PROSE
Malory
KJV
Swift
Bunyan
Austen
Dickens
George Eliot
Melville
Twain
Conrad
Joyce
Woolf
Faulkner
Hemingway

PLAY
Shakespeare
Sheridan
Wilde
Shaw
Beckett

ESSAY
Bacon
Johnson
Hazlitt
Emerson
Carlyle
Ruskin
Pater
TS Eliot
Orwell

[Anonymous No.11543620]

>>11543418
Kant, Plato, Ovid, Dostoyevsky.

[Anonymous No.11543622]

only "objective" manner would be number of words in the dictionary or idioms but even that's self-selection bias. either way stupid ask.

[Anonymous No.11543635]

chaucer
shakespeare
joyce
come to mind

[Anonymous No.11543637]

>>11543622
Objectively retarded post.

[Anonymous No.11543642]

POETS
Beowulf writer
Chaucer
Spenser
Shakespeare
Milton
Pope
Wordsworth
Keats
Whitman
Dickinson
Yeats
Pound
TS Eliot


PROSE
Malory
KJV
Swift
Bunyan
Austen
Dickens
George Eliot
Melville
Twain
Conrad
Joyce
Woolf
Faulkner
Hemingway

PLAY
Shakespeare
Sheridan
Wilde
Shaw
Beckett

ESSAY
Bacon
Johnson
Hazlitt
Emerson
Carlyle
Ruskin
Pater
TS Eliot
Orwell

[Anonymous No.11543711]

>>11543637
objectively shit reply

[Anonymous No.11543733]

>>11543711
Biased retort.

[Anonymous No.11543924]

>>11543620
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You jester!

[Anonymous No.11543961]

>>11543418
the bible desu

[Anonymous No.11544018]

Dude, it was mostly about fucking, not books. Seriously. I found this history show about venison somewhere that had these shitty subtitles because it had been overdubbed in La French. Pretty interesting stuff about the Viking roots of stuff that means bone house, but I don't remember the word.

[Anonymous No.11544175]

Bump

[Anonymous No.11544191]

Johnson's Dictionary had an immense influence on the shape of English in the aftermath of its publication.

[Anonymous No.11544250]

Chaucer
Spenser
Shakespeare
B. Johnson
Bacon
Milton
Bunyan
Dryden
Swift
Pope
S. Johnson
Coleridge
Hazlitt
Emerson
Ruskin
Dickens
Shaw
Orwell

I think those are the majors

[Anonymous No.11544273]

>>11543418
It only comes to my mind, Elliot Rodger.

[Anonymous No.11545683]

>>11544250
>No Wordsworth
>No Joyce
>No TS Eliot
>No Whitman
> No Beckett

Apart from that ok.

[Anonymous No.11545786]

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and now, it is being borne out, Whitman and Beckett.

[Anonymous No.11546092]

>>11545683
Did they really have that much of an influence, though, beyond a relatively small following of professional writers?

[Anonymous No.11546167]

>>11543642
based and

[Anonymous No.11546241]

>>11546092
Wordsworth pretty much kicked off the romantic poetry movement and changed the language and manner with which poetry was written. Coleridge helped by Wordsworth was the main driving force. Up there with Milton in terms of influence.

There is no twentieth century novel without Joyce.

TS eliot is arguably more influential for his essays than his poetry (Pound is probably the more important poet in terms of influence but Eliot is considerably better known)

No Whitman, no modernism.

Beckett is the most important writer of English Language theater since Shakespeare, and, along with Brecht, the most important of the twentieth century. His influence is palpable in most plays written today.

[Anonymous No.11546290]

>>11544018
Literally the worst post I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.11546927]

>>11543642
IRREFUTABLE.