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Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 02:28:14 2011 No.1577992 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the 10 greatest American writers?
These are, in my opinion, the 10 greatest American writers:

Thoreau
Emerson
Whitman
Twain
Melville
James
Faulkner
Hemingway
Frost
Williams

I want to see who you think are the 10 greatest American writers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:34:14 2011 No.1578001 no Kurt Vonnegut?

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 02:38:14 2011 No.1578005 >>1578001 Of course not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:38:14 2011 No.1578006 Whitman Hawthorne Dickinson Faulkner Hemingway Nabokov* Fante Plath Merwin Morrison * if he counts, which I think he should. If not, I substitute Mark Twain.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:40:14 2011 No.1578010 wow /lit/ confirmed for shit taste in poetry

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:41:14 2011 No.1578012 >>1578010 /lit/ has always had horrible taste in poetry. Let me guess, you think Eliot should be on the list?

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 02:44:14 2011 No.1578016 >>1578010 Post your list, you may find out that you are actually the one with shitty taste.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:45:14 2011 No.1578019 >>1578010 as in T.S. Eliot? fuck no. But Frost is painfully boring, Plath just bitched about her dick of a husband, and reading Whitman is like reading a trip report on erowid.org

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 02:46:14 2011 No.1578021 >>1578012 Eliot said he has the heart of an English man, I think he is too English for this list.

Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:47:14 2011 No.1578023

>>1578019
>Plath just bitched about her dick of a husband
Have you read any Plath at all? She only had two books of poetry published. You can read it all in a day. There's really no excuse as a devotee of letters to not have read her whole collection.

She was a fantastic poet and did much more than complain about Ted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:48:14 2011 No.1578025 File: 33 KB, 852x480, lebowski_tub_joint.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1578019 >reading Whitman is like reading a trip report on erowid.org Leaves of Grasssss, man

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 02:49:14 2011 No.1578026 >>1578019 >Insults Whitman, Eliot and Frost >Complains about /lit/'s taste in poetry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:50:14 2011 No.1578027 Stephen Dunn is a better poet than anyone on that list. Even his unpolished stuff (I'm thinking Routine Things Around the House) is better than anything Frost has done

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:52:14 2011 No.1578031 William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway Mark Twain Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald T. S. Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Henry David Thoreau Jonathan Franzen [Preparing for shitstorm - particularly for Franzen]

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:53:14 2011 No.1578032 ITT: there are no females in America

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 02:55:14 2011 No.1578033 >>1578031 >[Preparing for shitstorm - particularly for Franzen] Yeah, I liked your list until I saw his name. You were doing so well...

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:56:14 2011 No.1578035 >>1578032 Dickinson, Plath, and Morrison are females, friend.

>>	Virginia W00F !!GThm5VqxqDi Wed Feb 23 02:58:14 2011 No.1578037 >>1577992 >no Fitzgerald get the fuck out of my house.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 02:58:14 2011 No.1578039 File: 47 KB, 394x465, Sylvia Plath.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1578032 Emily Dickinson Flannery O'Connor Zora Neale Hurston Harper Lee Lauren Myracle Maureen Johnson Katherine Anne Porter Sapphire Eudora Welty Sylvia Plath

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 03:00:14 2011 No.1578043 >>1578033 For your list, to which James are you referring?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 03:00:14 2011 No.1578045 >>1578043 Henry, obviously

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 03:02:14 2011 No.1578047 >>1578043 Mine? Henry James.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 03:03:14 2011 No.1578050 >>1578045 I thought so. Personally, I don't like the idea of putting him on the list considering he spent the last 53 years of his life in England. I like his writing nevertheless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 03:04:14 2011 No.1578051 >>1578050 Sort of like TS Eliot. He probably doesn't belong on a list of Americans. Nabokov has the opposite problem: he wasn't American born but has decent claim to be on these lists.

>>	Classic_American_Liberal !8RGETRUjdI Wed Feb 23 03:12:14 2011 No.1578057 >>1578050 I never realized he had spent that much time in England. I don't know who I would replace him with.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 03:49:14 2011 No.1578090 melville ellison fante salinger faulkner fitzgerald steinbeck hemmingway henry miller and yea some poets or whatever

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 04:06:14 2011 No.1578108 >>1578032 >female writers bore me

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 04:07:14 2011 No.1578111 gone with the wind

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 04:08:14 2011 No.1578112 i would like to add...McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 04:10:14 2011 No.1578113 File: 16 KB, 395x228, larry_jeff_aback.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1578112 >greatest American writers >McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 04:37:14 2011 No.1578128 for those of you that wrote in t.s. eliot; he might have been american born, but he is considered an english author. at least that's what most anthologies of english literature state.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 04:42:14 2011 No.1578131 >>1578128 For those who didn't follow the thread: we know.

Anonymous Wed Feb 23 05:29:14 2011 No.1578183

>>1578131
hey fuckwad reread the thread.
no one actually states that eliot is an english writer. one says that he has the heart of an englishman and another states that he "probably doesn't belong on a list of americans."
I'm saying he's a fucking english author. shit for brains.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 06:57:14 2011 No.1578231 >>1578010 Amen

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 06:58:14 2011 No.1578233 >>1578231 What American poets do you like, then?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:06:14 2011 No.1578242 Faulkner towers over most of the rest in my opinion. But I am from the south and attended Ole Miss.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:06:14 2011 No.1578245 File: 22 KB, 300x412, brautigan.watermelon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1578242 Also, this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:08:14 2011 No.1578248 >>1578242 Do a lot of Southerners list him as their favorite author? I've read As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury and never found Faulkner very compelling. Does it get better if I read Absalom?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:15:14 2011 No.1578250 >>1578248 Those are both fantastic books. If you didn't like either you won't like Absolom (although it's a little easir to read).

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:16:14 2011 No.1578252 >>1577992 Imokwiththis.jpg

Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:19:14 2011 No.1578255
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>>1578248
Probably the ones that don't list John Grisham.

It goes both ways really, a lot of southerners love Faulkner and hold him in the highest esteem.

Quite a few other well-read southerners pretend to hate him, but it usually feels like they are just trying to be different.

Move those fuckers to NYC and all of a sudden they are Faulkner experts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:21:14 2011 No.1578256 File: 15 KB, 225x300, brautigan5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1578248 Keep in mind that I'm currently spacing out on xanax and eating chocolate doughnuts prior to bedtime.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:21:14 2011 No.1578257 >>1577992 >>1578252 Of all the poets the United States has ever produced, you pick William Carlos Williams as one of the best? Are you brain dead?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:22:14 2011 No.1578258 >>1578256 You're making sense, at least. I think I'll try Absalom just in case. If I still don't like him after that I'll assume 2deep4me and move on. He's clearly talented but his stories just don't draw me in like other authors.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:30:14 2011 No.1578269 >>1578258 Absalom is one of his strongest, in my opinion.

Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:32:14 2011 No.1578272

>>1578255
I'm from the south, by transplant, but my family moved when I was like 8 so reluctantly I can't help but consider myself a southerner, and while I haven't read anywhere near all of Faulkner's works I find myself with respect for him as an author but I'm not terribly fond of his novels. I do, however, enjoy his short stories for the most part.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:37:14 2011 No.1578277 >>1578272 Never tried his shorts but I've heard a lot of praise for Rose for Emily. Any other recommendations?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 07:43:14 2011 No.1578283 >>1578277 That Evening Sun and Barn Burning are both really good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 08:03:14 2011 No.1578323 >>1578039 You were doing good until Sylvia Plath

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 08:04:14 2011 No.1578325 >>1578323 I'm just kidding, half of your list is terrible

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 12:34:14 2011 No.1578674 1)Whitman 2)Hemingway 3)Fitzgerald 4)Nabokov 5)Dickinson 6)Poe 7)Eliot 8)Hawthorne 9)Melville 10)Twain

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 12:36:14 2011 No.1578675 >implying Cervantes is not from the United States of America hahaha oh wow

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 12:39:14 2011 No.1578678 Bitch, I don't see no goddamn Wallace Stevens on any of these lists. You are all small time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 12:47:14 2011 No.1578689 Faulkner Melville Hemingway Twain Whitman Steinbeck DeLillo McCarthy Nabokov T.S. Eliot no surprises here I hope

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 13:02:14 2011 No.1578716 Nabokov Salinger Fitzgerald Hemingway Pynchon James Steinbeck Faulkner Twain Richard Ford/D.F. Wallace

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 13:14:14 2011 No.1578745 >10 greatest american writers >confine your list to only one specific age of American writing sure is elitist douchebag in here

>>	God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ Wed Feb 23 13:14:14 2011 No.1578746 Vonnegut Hurston Salinger Whitman Faulkner Hemingway cummings. Pynchon ...made me realize I don't read a lot of American writers. oh well.

>>	God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ Wed Feb 23 13:18:17 2011 No.1578751 >>1578746 eh, I'd also ass Frank Bidart. Also maybe McCarthy

>>	God Waitings !!nOIAlmFxka+ Wed Feb 23 13:19:14 2011 No.1578753 >>1578746 eh, I'd also add Frank Bidart. Also maybe McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 23 15:34:14 2011 No.1579001 1. Whitman 2. Melville

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