Who are the 3 greatest writers in the English langauge

In the history of the English language who would you say the 3 greatest writers are in your opinion

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