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Anonymous Tue Sep 30 04:52:38 2014 No.5508593 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the greatest writers of:

>present century

>20th century

>19th century

>18th century

>17th century

>16th century

>Anything prior to the 16th century

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 05:06:08 2014 No.5508623 >present century ? >20th century Mann >19th century Dostoyevsky >18th century Rousseau >17th century Shakespeare, Molière >16th century Shakespeare >Anything prior to the 16th century Chrétien de Troyes

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 16:05:03 2014 No.5510774

>>5508593
>present century
No Idea
>20th century
Kafka, Proust, Joyce, Beckett
>19th century
Hugo, Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Gogol
>18th century
Schiller, Blake
>17th century
Racine, Corneille, Milton, La Fontaine, Calderón
>16th century
Tasso, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Cervantes
>Anything prior to the 16th century
Boccaccio, Chaucer, de Troyes, Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto

(I don't know nothing about Spanish Literature though)

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 16:09:29 2014 No.5510793 >present century Meyer, Dan Brown, Rush Limbaugh >20th century Ron L. Hubbard >19th century Joseph Smith >18th century Who cares >17th century ? >16th century ? >Anything prior to the 16th century ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 16:21:23 2014 No.5510854 >>5508593 >>present century Dont know >>20th century Nabokov >>19th century Tolstoy >>18th century dont know >>17th century Shakespeare >>16th century Shakespeare >>Anything prior to the 16th century Homer

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 16:27:16 2014 No.5510885 >>5510854 by "Anything prior to the 16th century" I think that OP meant something in the late Middle-Ages, early Renaissance

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 17:32:36 2014 No.5511208 >>5510774 >putting Goethe and Schiller in two different categories. ishygddt

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 18:05:58 2014 No.5511363 >>5510774 Your list made me unwilling to post mine. Also you mentioned Calderón would you be so kind to provide a little list of his 10-20 best plays. I really want to read him but he has written so fucking much.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 18:09:57 2014 No.5511380

>>5508593
>Anything prior to the 16th century
Dunno
>16th century
Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Musashi, Cervantes
>17th century
Molière
>18th century
Goethe
>19th century
de Quincey, Baudelaire, Dostojevskij, Tolstoy, Proust
>20th century
Who cares?
>present century
Anonymous

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 18:38:59 2014 No.5511538 >>5508593 >>Anything prior to the 16th century you are retarded OP why is the 15th century back to 1800 BC one category but the 16th century it's own category?

Anonymous Wed Oct 1 03:45:59 2014 No.5513568

>>5511363
La Dama Duende
La Vida es Sueño (his most famous)
El médico de su honra
A Secreto Agravio, Secreta Venganza
El gran teatro del mundo
El Principe Constant
El Purgatorio de San Patricio
El Secreto a Voces

In my opinion, they are the best of him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 04:12:05 2014 No.5513607 >>5511538 because im op and i make the rules for the thread :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 04:13:52 2014 No.5513611 >>5508593 >present century >20th century >19th century >18th century >17th century >16th century >Anything prior to the 16th century Shakespeare >>5511380 >Who cares? Pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 04:14:53 2014 No.5513616 >>5513607 How do I become like you OP?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 04:17:07 2014 No.5513621 >>5511363 I read La vida es Sueño and El Gran Teatro del Mundo and would recommend both

Anonymous Wed Oct 1 04:17:50 2014 No.5513627

in english poetry

>present century
who knows lmao

>20th century
eliot (if you count him as english)

>19th century
keats, wordsworth, blake

>18th century
pope, wordsworth, blake

>17th century
shakespeare, milton

>16th century
shakespeare, marlowe

>Anything prior to the 16th century
chaucer

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 05:39:44 2014 No.5513833 >>5513627 >#tOtally #NoT #BiasEd LOL

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 05:41:21 2014 No.5513836 >>5513627 What about Shelley or Byron? (I'm new to English poetry so please be gentle)

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 06:04:49 2014 No.5513898 >>5513836 i just rate them a bit lower than the ones i put there. them and coleridge are just a bit below wordsworth, keats, and blake.

>>	o !!r3+23beQiOG Wed Oct 1 06:05:28 2014 No.5513899 >>5513898 What do you make of Dickinson?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 06:07:10 2014 No.5513900 >>5513899 dickinson is one of my favorite poets but she's not english so i didn't put her on the list

>>	o !!r3+23beQiOG Wed Oct 1 06:08:30 2014 No.5513903 >>5513900 oh yeah, english as in the nation, aight

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 06:08:35 2014 No.5513904 >>5513627 lol just realized i forgot spenser

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 18:56:18 2014 No.5516804 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 19:01:16 2014 No.5516837 >present century Kolsti Nguyen >20th century Thomas Pynchon >19th century Herman Melville >18th century Goethe >17th century Cervantes >16th century Shakespeare >Anything prior to the 16th century Dante

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 19:03:07 2014 No.5516850 >>5516837 >Kolsti Here we go again. Also for you shitheads who want to say Pynchon for the 20th century and name someone else for the 21st, remember that Tommy isn't dead yet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 19:11:23 2014 No.5516885 >>5516837 Who the fuck is Kolsti Nguyen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 19:12:26 2014 No.5516888 >>5516850 Pynchon's four best novels came out in the 20th century.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 19:13:28 2014 No.5516893 >>5516885 rimbaud/dfw hybrid

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 19:17:25 2014 No.5516911 >>5516885 A 17 year old with a tumblr that constantly namedrops his own name in threads like this and then samefags

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:24:00 2014 No.5517235 >>5516885 the hero /lit/ deserves

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:25:24 2014 No.5517242 >>5510885 I think he meant anything prior to the 16th century but I could be wrong

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:27:31 2014 No.5517255 >>5516850 Yeah, and he's writing pulp trash. I don't blame him, obviously he's got the litfic people worshipping him, might as well try and get some respect from normalfags before dying.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:30:06 2014 No.5517273 >>5516885 Some terrible writer whom some of /lit/ worships for absolutely no reason I'm pretty sure everyone who digs Kolsti also digs Tao Lin which should tell you something

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:45:17 2014 No.5517359 >>5517273 >absolutely no reason It's an exact distillation of the styles and themes of everyone /lit/ likes: Camus, Joyce, Tao, DFW, Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:50:26 2014 No.5517391 >>5517359 No it's fucking not Almost nobody on /lit/ likes fucking Tao Kolsti doesn't come even close to being as good as Pynchon, Joyce or DFW. Or Camus, for that matter.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:51:14 2014 No.5517397 >>5517391 >implies DFW is better than Camus wut

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:52:54 2014 No.5517404 >>5517397 He's not, but grouping Camus with those four makes no sense

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:54:26 2014 No.5517413 >>5517273 >whom

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:55:29 2014 No.5517419 >>5517404 not him but http://postmetakolsti.tumblr.com/post/94266060295/prose-experiment-in-restraint is basically The Fall in a paragraph

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 20:59:51 2014 No.5517446 >>5517419 In theme, maybe, but (obviously) not style. That's only 25% the battle. >>5517413 >hurr durr you made a typo xD >>>/reddit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 22:50:15 2014 No.5517948 >>5517419 Why have I never seen this. Why is that godawful Onions poem so popular but this is never talked about. This is great.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 08:12:03 2014 No.5519553 >>5516837 >>19th century >Herman Melville >being this pleb

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 08:20:07 2014 No.5519582 >>5508593 >present century Me. >20th century Joyce >19th century Nietzsche >18th century >17th century >16th century >Prior to the 16th century There were no good writers then.

>>	Zeeburg Thu Oct 2 08:22:00 2014 No.5519588 >>5516837 >Pynchon What a dumb faggot

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