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We all know that Shakespeare is the best English writer, but who's second best?

>> No.17806869

Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer are probably the three most important English authors.

>> No.17806872

Carlyle or Gibbon

>> No.17806891
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>>17806853
Jezza

>> No.17806895

>>17806853
Either Chaucer or Keats

>> No.17806908

>>17806853
Sidney

>> No.17806956

>>17806853
This is my list of the greats in English. This isn't necessarily my favourites list, but more a list on historical importance, aesthetic style, and technique
>Shakespeare
>Chaucer
>Spenser
>Milton
>Blake
>Donne
>Tennyson
>Byron
>Browning
>Yeats

>> No.17806958

>>17806853
For prose? Joyce or Melville. For poetry? Probably Milton or Wordsworth. For character? I'd say Faulkner or (I expect pushback here) Dickens.