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I'll start:

Geoffery Chaucer
Shakespeare
Edward Gibbon
Vladimir Nabokov
John Updike
William F. Buckley Jr
Christopher Hitchens

>> No.1173864

>>1173857
>prose
>Shakespeare
>Chaucer

what

>> No.1173862

>>Greatest prose stylists of the English language
>> Greatest prose
>>prose
>>Geoffery Chaucer
>>Shakespeare

>> No.1173866
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>> No.1173868

>>1173862
plays have prose

>> No.1173875

>>1173868

not shakespeare bro

>> No.1173876

>>1173875
yes, shakespeare

>> No.1173884

>>1173866
Get out of here lorca. This ain't your place.

>> No.1173886

>Christopher Hitchens
>No John Milton

>> No.1173888

>>1173886

trololo

>> No.1173890

>No Walt Whitman

What's wrong, not CONFORMIST enough for you?

>> No.1173893

James Joyce should be in there and YOU ALL KNOW IT.

>> No.1173895

>>1173864
>>1173862

Weren't some parts of some of Shakespeares plays in prose. The rude mechanicals in A Midsummers Nights dream for example? Or was that blank verse?

>> No.1173899

Ambrose Bierce
H L Mencken
G K Chesterton

>> No.1173902

In his plays Shakespeare used prose, rhyme verse, and blank verse. Therefore he is a prose stylist. And he rarely used verse, only at certain parts of the plays.

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>>1173857
>William F. Buckley?
What work of his could OP possibly be reffering to? Can you also remind me what was the name of his James Bond type character?

>> No.1173909

>>1173895
>Shakespeare had about 3 lines per play that were in prose
>Greatest prose writer on earth

>> No.1173913

Henry James
Ronald Firbank
Sir Thomas Browne
Amanda McKittrick Ros
John Lyly
Marie Corelli

>> No.1173915

10/10
for no Dostoevsky or Tolstoy
yeah I raged

>> No.1173917

>>Can you also remind me what was the name of his James Bond type character?

I believe it was Blackford Choad, G-Man.

>> No.1173919

>>1173915

Baby's first troll? 0/10 too obvious.

>> No.1173921

>>1173917
Blackford Ochs, I believe. Buckley was a peice of scum.

>> No.1173922

>>1173905
>What work of his could OP possibly be reffering to

all of them

>> No.1173934

Shakespeare was a fucking plagiarist who took the credit of others' work.

>> No.1173933

>>1173922
I was requesting a specific.

>> No.1173935

>>Shakespeare was a fucking plagiarist who took the credit of others' work.

Yeah, if I was Plutarch or Saxo Grammaticus, I would have sued his faggoty sonnet-writing ass.

>> No.1173974

>>1173933
Any of them. Every sentence he wrote was golden

>> No.1173992

>>1173868
Yeah, but it's not the strong point of either, and neither's prose is "great", let alone among the "greatEST".

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>> No.1174128

>>1173888
How so? Milton was one of the finest writers of non-fiction prose in the history of the English language.

>> No.1174726

buckley and hitch are just like...the way they write i picture some fat dork who owns a utilikilt posing for a facebook profile photo with a glass of wine in his hand and an unearned, heavily practiced smug expression on his face

>> No.1174730

>>1173913
>Henry James
The first and only sensible choice so far

>> No.1174747

Subjectivity Battle - Round 1

FIGHT!

>> No.1174762

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_writers

Out of all those writers, how many have you read? And that's just writers from England, not people writing in English. Once you've read at least half of that list, then I'll ask your opinion on the greatest prose writers of the English language.

>> No.1174764

>>1174762
>implying the authors taught in high school are not the greatest prose writers of the English language

>> No.1174770

>>1174764
How does it feel to take everything at someone else's word?

>> No.1174775

Anyone else thing Hitchens looks like Shakespeare? Shared ancestors fo sho.

>> No.1174781

>>1174775
wow big surprise that whole godforsaken island is inbred

>> No.1174798

All British people look and sound like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange

>> No.1174810

no swift? i disappoint, /lit/

>> No.1174814

>>1174770

>my face when you take things more literally than I do and I'm mildly autistic

>> No.1174833

I'd say Ælfric of Eynsham is probably the greatest English prose writer of all time. No one since has come close to capturing the rhythmic, alliterative quality of his works.

>> No.1174834

>>1174814
Omg shut up

>> No.1174842

>>1174833
Also, while Chaucer wrote some of my favourite verse, his prose was effectively limited to a stilted translation of Boethius, an instructional manual for an astrolabe and the Parsons Tale & Melibeus - both of which are often left out of anthologies because they are so dry and boresome.

>> No.1174859

>>1174833
Agreed

>> No.1174893

Joseph Conrad

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>my face when this thread I see