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Where does he rank among American writers? Anonymous Fri Oct 16 14:13:24 2020 No.16592487 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 14:15:01 2020 No.16592502 In the God Tier, with Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner and Pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 15:01:27 2020 No.16592801 >>16592487 Right after my wife's boyfriend (also one of the first universally acclaimed writers of color!)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 15:05:06 2020 No.16592817 File: 373 KB, 1507x1200, JPEG.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >marries a 12 year old cousin, proceeds to whore around and kill self with alcohol Belongs on the heap.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 15:06:14 2020 No.16592825 God-tier if you're European. OK-tier if you're American.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 15:19:54 2020 No.16592900 >>16592825 poe (like eliot) is an european author born on a foreign soil. that's why amerimutts only know the raven meme and a couple horror tales just read eureka

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 15:34:12 2020 No.16592984 >>16592900 Shut up faggot, you sound like a retard

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 18:05:26 2020 No.16593860 >>16592900 He's poetically in the tradition of Samuel Daniel and Tennyson...but mechanized to an American extent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 18:10:41 2020 No.16593880 >>16592487 Wish I was born in late 1700s

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 16 19:00:24 2020 No.16594219 >>16592487 top third for sure