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LET'S SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL

WHICH ENGLISH WRITER HAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STYLE?

>> No.8692944

Bellow is the GOAT English prose stylist of the 20th century

>> No.8692951

Woolf in The Waves

>> No.8692977

Gass in Omensetter's Luck. It's his most accomplished novel, and I will fite Tunnelmemers irl.

>> No.8692996

>>8692944
Fucking yikes

>> No.8693003

>>8692951
this or t s eliot in ash wednesday

>> No.8693008

>>8692996
he meant to say 'below' i.e. woolf

>> No.8693009

>>8692937
Shakespeare

>> No.8693010

Shakespeare

>> No.8693015

Whoever was the guy who wrote my diary desu

>> No.8693024

>>8692937
>style of English writers
Gee, can't do much wrong with a fucking over-simplified pidgin language that is as rigid as it is dull

>> No.8693025

Joyce no question

>> No.8693042

>>8693015
If I or anyone who replies to this post gets dubs they have to post a page of their diary

Ravioli ravioli give me the rollioli

>> No.8693077

j joyce
>>8692951
come on

>> No.8693083
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8693083

j a baker

>> No.8693088

>>8693042
I havent read my diary desu

>> No.8693094

>>8693024
This
But is Joyce desu

>> No.8693097

"Beautiful style" is old-fashioned. If youre trying to write pretty prose in 2016, just lol. Its like painting sunsets.

>> No.8693151

Shakespeare.
Next!

>> No.8693160

>>8693097
You're an embarrassment. Don't post on my board again.

Yes I am le mad

>> No.8693201

>>8693160
All right grandpa

>> No.8693226

Probably Ludovici for 20th century non-fiction.

>> No.8693238

>>8693160
Ugh go pop a xan you fucking boring twat

Stay mad that literature is about being A E S T H E T I C now rather than reactionary purple prose shit ugh

>> No.8693248

>>8693097
>just lol
>JUST LOL
>JUST
>LOL
>JUST LOL
>JUST LOL
>Just

>> No.8693273

>>8693248
You sound a little panicked... As if your hard drive full of joyce imitations suddenly seems very silly

>> No.8693281

>>8692937
the Scottish ones.

>> No.8693289

>>8693003
Eliot can try to be English all he likes, he's not fooling anyone.

>> No.8693294

Me

>> No.8693341

>>8693273
Nigga I haven't had time to write fiction since high school. I just recognize minimalists for the sub-humans they really are.

But really how can you type the words, "then just lol", and think that constitutes an argument?

Your style of writing isn't the dominant mode; it will never be the dominant mode, cuz it's shite. Well crafted prose will always trump your iceberg bullshit

>> No.8693355

>>8692996
Prove me wrong faggot

>> No.8693359

>>8693341
you got the order confused, im not "just lol" guy, i was responding to "just lol" guy

but anyway hemingway wasnt a "minimalist," although he didnt propose the iceberg theory. hemingway changed 20th century literature for the better. he brought us out of the flower petals and tea victorian age and single-handedly invented the way we write now. modern prose is plain, clear, direct, and unpretentious. the fiction writers who are building joycean "cathedrals" and thinking about alliteration are dead or getting a creative writing degree, which amounts to the same thing.

>> No.8693369

>>8693015
>>8693042

Don't have a diary but I'll write one if needs be

let's play

>> No.8693374

>>8693359
>modern prose is plain, clear, direct, and unpretentious.

is it really though?

>> No.8693379

>>8693374
im two thoughts ahead of you: let me remind you that harold bloom is like 100 years old

>> No.8693388

>>8693379
Bloom is a spook.

>> No.8693403

>>8692937
Emily Bronte.

>> No.8693406

>>8693388
yes but /lit/ is a community of 21 year old pseuds whose reading is guided by an old yale professor whose aesthetic taste was made in the late 40s. the guy cant even tolerate listening to a rock song, and these aspiring literary greats look to him as a guide to art in 2016.

>> No.8693407

>>8693379
Please list some modern writers whose styles are consistent with your opinions.

>> No.8693408

Joyce.

>> No.8693414

Milton most beautiful

followed by Chaucer

>> No.8693421

>>8693097
This actually applies to all art. "Beauty" as a measure of merit was exploded in the visual arts scene decades ago. It's not new.

But you probably didnt know that

Amusing to see /lit/ continue to revere lolita as if that's what good writing is

>> No.8693424

writer of Beowulf for beautiful and purest English

>> No.8693428

>"Beauty" as a measure of merit was exploded in the visual arts scene decades ago.

By Jews, hacks, and money launderers?

>> No.8693439

>>8693428
one of these things is not like the others.

>> No.8693445

>>8693439
hacks?

>> No.8693450

>>8693097
>in 2016
>just lol

hey trudeau bud, hows it goin with the cuckery bud?

>> No.8693451

>>8693374
Even if it were I don't know how that could possibly be desirable.

>> No.8693455

>>8693421
You're a fuck if you think that the only appeal of Lolita is it's pretty prose. More so than any other novel that comes to mind, the floridity of the language isn't just empty calories or window dressing, it is a core aspect of the way the narrator is skewing and shaping the events of the book.

>> No.8693456

>>8693421
This. Tao Lin is my favorite writer.

>> No.8693462

>>8693455
Ya you don't have that excuse for the rest of his work. Stop making us look bad

>> No.8693468

>>8693421
>"Beauty" as a measure of merit was exploded in the visual arts scene decades ago.
here you have it. historically, the literature has not exploded in that magnitude yet.

>> No.8693500

>>8693455
Yeah but then you read every other nabokov novel and you realize his frilly prose wasnt just a device, it was an obsession (and the same is true of the subject matter, oops)

>> No.8693512

>>8693359
>"joycean cathedrals"
have you even read joyce? he's clear and direct all the time

>> No.8693523

>>8693512
Surely you dont mean... all the time

>> No.8693525

>>8693523
often

>> No.8693530

>>8692937
Easy, the ones that were not native English. Nobokov and Conrad.

>> No.8693568

>>8693406
rock in 2016 is lame tho

>> No.8693598

>>8692937
me desu

>> No.8693919

Updike.

>> No.8693928

>>8693097
i second this post

>> No.8693935

>>8693359
lmao this is google quote worthy
served

>> No.8694140

>>8693468
how would you ever explode it to that magnitude though? language is very different to vision, I don't think it's possible for literature to deconstruct itself the way art did.

>> No.8695264

Milton is prob number 1 to my mind.

But for sheer beauty of expression in prose, it's hard to do better than George Eliot

>> No.8695311

Why it is James Joyce of course

>> No.8695548

>>8695264
This is the worst/lit/ meme

>> No.8696786

>>8693097
Obviously beauty here is taken to mean sublimity, not strictly floweryness.

>> No.8696841

Bellow & 'Bokov

honorable mention: Updike

>> No.8696914

>>8693025
>>8693094
Not English either

>> No.8698479

>>8692937
Will Self

>> No.8698530

Blake

>> No.8698597

>>8693097
>>8693928

>I am bitter that I can't write well

>> No.8698605

I like Hollinghurst's style. He may not be the best, but deserves a mention.