How can Americans compete with any of these:
>Dante
>Shakespeare
>Cervantes
>Goethe
How can Americans compete with any of these:
>Dante
>wrote an okayish poem about hell, the rest are boring af
>Shakespeare
>a few are okay (macbeth) but it's mostly pretentious intellectual masturbation
>Cervantes
>literally fucking who
>Goethe
>literally fucking who
>burgerman thinks he makes an interesting post but he just looks like an uneducated idiot
>the same goes for OP
What makes these authors so good user? Give me the full side of your agruement.
they had really big dicks
clearly bait, please try a little harder in the future
Americans can claim Shakespeare just as easily as any Brit. What makes you think present day Britain is the more rightful heir of English tradition than the Americans who came from there?
Made me kek, have an upvote ;)
That's only four tho. A party of american writermon should have a chance to win if controlled by a skilled trainer.
We're still alive.
* a full party of six
underrated.
not because I'm an American who wants to claim
Shakespeare, but because he more closely embodies the American revolutionary spirit than those of the English colonial tradition.
>still alive
This was a triumph
not as much as a southern englishman
I'm making a note here: "huge success"
It's hard to overstate may huge euphoria
>>Dante
Divine Comedy
>>Shakespeare
The Tragedies
>>Cervantes
Don Quixote
>>Goethe
Faust
>>David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
All of those gentlemen were American in spirit, through and through. Next.
>I'm proud of my ignorance
You don't know the authors of Faust and Don quixote?
I'd answer
>Melville
>Dickens
>Pynchon
>Whitman
respectively, in that order
>Dickens
>American
>literature
/thread
What makes you think Americans are in any way descended from the British? Perhaps true hundreds of years ago, far from it now. They are mongrels with many far-reaching antecedents.
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> (OP)
>>American
>>literature
this desu
Believing nations can own authors is spooky as fuck.
Replace Whitman with Faulkner
borges is american
Whitman should be first
Dickens should be Dickinson
this.
Shakespearean English is most similar to a southern accent
its a language moron
Most similar to a west country accent.