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Anonymous Sat Oct 15 16:00:55 2016 No.8622762 [Reply] [Original]

Is Smollett the best 18th century writer?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 16:05:59 2016 No.8622776 >>8622762 18th century literature was a mistake. It's nothing but trash.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 16:08:20 2016 No.8622786 >>8622776 i know i shouldn't keep being surprised this board is pleb as fuck yet it keeps happening

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 16:50:37 2016 No.8622930 >>8622786 it was though france ruined it with bs rules they made up

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 18:20:48 2016 No.8623199 File: 295 KB, 1024x1263, Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] NOPE

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:01:18 2016 No.8623284 >>8622762 >There is not the Smollett trace in my brain who he is

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:07:50 2016 No.8623305 >>8622930 Are you thinking of theatre? You should actually read the big 18th century novelists

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:11:33 2016 No.8623316 >>8623199 Mein Neger

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:14:11 2016 No.8623321 >>8623199 Exhaustingly earnest and somber, never wrote anything as good as Peregrine Pickle

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:14:21 2016 No.8623322 >>8622762 >Is Smollett the best 18th century writer? i dont know

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:22:32 2016 No.8623341 File: 35 KB, 500x558, heh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:49:25 2016 No.8623414 >>8623305 Richardson, Smollett and Fielding are all trash. Goethe and Sterne are actually good, haven't read anyone else.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:52:43 2016 No.8623423 >>8623414 Why is Fielding trash?

Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:54:19 2016 No.8623426

>>8622762

I wouldn't think so but he's wildly enjoyable. He paints such wonderful pictures of england at the time, I'm going through humphry clinker right now.

From what i know of him he was pretty extreme and like a wild boy of the /lit/ world who was always on the outside.

Daniel Defoe is quite good too though, anyone who gets put in stocks and recites poetry while having flowers thrown his way (possibly) is cool.

18th century writers in england are very overlooked.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 19:55:29 2016 No.8623431 >>8623423 >Hey guys check out my picaresque hero, he goes on funny adventures >But Henry, everyone else is writing the same thing >Yeah, but I'm really making fun of everyone else

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 15 20:00:15 2016 No.8623446 >>8623426 It's always seemed strange to me that Samuel Johnson hated Fielding but was mates with Smollett, who's debatably filthier and definitely crueler >>8623431 not really accurate at all

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