In the history of the English language who would you say the 3 greatest writers are in your opinion
Who are the 3 greatest writers in the English langauge
homer Hitler and dfw
Can any worthy argument be made for not including Shakespeare?
I guess opinion is the keyword so
Nabokov
Joyce
Pynchon
Shakespeare
William Tyndale
James Joyce
>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Chaucer
In regards to influence and importance to the language and literature. In my personal opinion,
>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Melville
Joyce
Shakespeare
Proust
Shakespeare and Milton are the top 2...I am shocked that no one in here has mentioned Milton yet..... you simply cannot deny Milton's influence
after them the 3rd choice is tricky, many candidates, but probably Chaucer
>proust
James Madison
Isaac Asimov
Tolkien
If Oscar Wilde was more prolific he might replace Tolkien.
proust
wut?
Dude actually said Proust he was French
i was thinking same when i saw the post. Milton/Shakespeare/Joyce i guess
Tyndale in an interesting choice.
Definitely Nabokov, I wish I could include Prosut, Hawthorne, Shakespeare; Woolf gets an honorable mention.
Saul Bellow three times
chaucer, spenser and shakespeare
>Prosut
What are the criteria for 'best writer'?
Dickens is one
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Proust
Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Mishima
Putin
Hitler, Trump, Mohamed Ali
george eliot
joseph conrad
charles dickens
Dickens
Shakespeare
Me.
Stalin, Mobi-dick, Marques
>charles dickens
>Dickens is one
Was he even white?
Hillary Clinton, Curt Cobain, Nigel Farage
Painfully unfunny posts.
>Painfully, Unfunny, Posts.
Who are they? Never read them.
Edgar Alan Poe.
H.P. Lovecraft.
Philip K. Dick.
Ideas > Prose.
ehhh
A good portion of those weren't even jokes.
Also forgot pic.
Shakespeare, for the 2nd and 3rd place ther eis no way to choose and be fair
Chaucer, Milton, Joyce, Eliot, Melville, Woolf, Faulkner and maybe even Henry James. Pynchon and Gaddis could be included I guess
Yeah, because books about government-controlled pink lasers are the highest form of literature
You're an idiot.
Shakespeare, undeniably. No single writer has exerted such influence: no single writer ever will.
Milton
Joyce
Shakespeare
Joyce
Wordsworth