According to Schelling the three post-ancient authors you must read before you die are SHAKESPEARE, DANTE and CERVANTES. He later replaced Cervantes with GOETHE.
Imagine, after finding out you spent a significant part of your youth lurking Veeky Forums, they've made you the national minister for education. What three authors do you put into the obligatory curriculum of non-ancient literature classes?
Matthew Sullivan
Ovid, Shakespeare Dante
Zachary Cruz
shakespeare dante and goethe
schelling was right
Brody Torres
>Ovid oh ja, he isn't quite as ancient as Quintus Ennius or Plautus!
Matthew White
Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace
Nathan Phillips
Didn't he invent a Renaissance English of his own because he didn't like the savage language of that bawdy Ipswich vintner?
Grayson Phillips
Cervantes, Dante, and Chaucer.
Shakespeare, although a giant of literature, lacks historical importance in comparison to these three. Think about it. Ceevantes, dante, and chaucer are credited with being key with the transformation/advancement of their respective languages.
Ethan Hill
Wallace is a good choice. I should be immortal because i'm never going to read that shit.
Michael Russell
Shakespeare, Ibsen and Hemingway
Jonathan Bailey
So is Shakespeare.
Asher Nguyen
The language he wrote in was pioneered in Morte d'Arthur and confirmed by the book of common prayer.
Andrew Thomas
Joyce, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky
Ayden Baker
Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
Xavier Hernandez
Kierkegaard Shakespeare, Goethe.
Actually Kierkegaard, Hamsun and Strindberg, nordic master race
Angel Long
What makes you think Kierkegaard is so important?
Chase Rivera
Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickens. Pretty self-explanatory and I think the read something by all three of them in secondary school.
Parker Kelly
Why did he limit himself to three?
Connor Morales
Balzac, Shakespeare, Proust.
Michael Perez
Homer, Plato, Aristotle
Oliver Bennett
Post ancient.
Chase Stewart
While I would be tempted to leave Chaucer in, if it's the historical importance with respect to the establishing of the language you're looking for, Spenser should replace, though it would wound me to do so.
Julian Barnes
Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Dante.
Jaxon Turner
This post is objectively true. If teaching an Anglo centric curriculum, these three will help the students to understand the historical trajectory of the literature, but also help them to understand the matter from which their own sense of identity has been constructed.
Blake Green
Nah, Chaucer is an anomaly in English literature. After Canterbury Tales there is virtually nothing worth reading for the next 150 years. When the English Renaissance happened the writers were using a completely different vernacular to that of Chaucer's (except Spenser admittedly, who was roundly criticised by Sidney, Jonson and others for using such an archaic diction).
Brayden Jackson
You're all plebs: if you make three writers compulsory in the curriculum, two have to be of your own language and culture.
For Britain, I'd choose Dante, Chaucer and Shakespeare
Zachary Adams
When u nut but she keeps succing
Bentley Campbell
Because he liked an archaic German word very much, which was akin to "twain" but more like "thrain". He was so nimble he has managed to be an idealist philosopher, a romantic pamphleteer and a proto-psychologist trying to make systematic sense of the unconscious. In other words: his vocations were thrain. Thrain, like the artists of the Neuzeit everybody has to read.
Jaxon Gomez
>lacks historical importance in comparison to these three WHAAAAAATTTTT
Lincoln Miller
Kek
Jaxson Scott
michael chabon, jonathan franzen, zadie smith
Jose Fisher
chad harbach, jeffrey eugenides, jonathan safran foer
William Morales
rachel kushner, dave eggers, joyce carol oates
Josiah Peterson
i'd say chabon, franzen, and eggers, but you want a woman in there. zadie is a good choice
Henry Garcia
i love eugenides!
Lucas Sullivan
cormac mccarthy, william faulkner, charles bukowski
Aiden Jackson
camille paglia, christopher hitchens, gavin mcinnes
Camden Cook
I second this, that's completely incorrect.
Eli Morgan
no one else thinks this was funny?
Camden Johnson
If you must include a woman, it should be Woolf.
Ethan Cruz
Not him, but his prose is wonderful and he'd help get rid of the modern positivist mindset.
Christopher White
Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Joyce.
James Sanders
cant be sure, but i dont think the zadie smith dudes are being serious
Gabriel Sanchez
I like the idea of Shakespeare and Goethe Combined, they said EVERYTHING
David Cox
You are an idiot
Zachary Parker
>Replacing the father of novel that is Cervantes instead of a drunk iliterate that is Shakespeare Lit af m8 Cervantes, Homero and myself
Charles Brooks
Core: Shakespeare, Gotethe, and Dante
then Poets: Chaucer, Milton, and Keats Dramatists: Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the English Renaissance Novelists: Richardson, Dickens, and Austen
Jason Morgan
this would be for *English* Literature obviously
Kevin Price
John Fowles, Samuel Delaney, Henry James.
Lincoln Turner
DFW DFW DFW
Eli Wilson
Who is "Richardson"?
Dominic Davis
assumign samuel
Levi Hughes
Thanks buddy
Kayden Clark
Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Proust
Easton Carter
Poor bait but a complementary (you) for trying.
Camden Lewis
McCarthy Faulkner O'Connor
>obligatory curriculum of maize
Joshua Young
Plato Schopenhauer Dosto
Austin Perry
>maize curriculum >No cather
senpai??
Josiah Bennett
and with goethe, off all things. wtf is so great about goethe?
Samuel Scott
best answer by far
Anthony Bell
Who is this English Renaissance you mention? Never heard of him.
Ryder Carter
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Adam Hernandez
For some resin these names all seem to be things I was forced to read in Honors Lit in 11th grade and then in my History/English classes in university. Except for Shakespeare who I was forced to read and wright papers on has punishment for bad grades by my neighbor. Note to my four year-old self don't pick the eccentric old man down the block to be your best friend, he will make you a a literate woman when you grow up.