The 19th century was the greatest ever era for literature:

The 19th century was the greatest ever era for literature:

>Hegel
>Nietzsche
>Gogol
>Turgenev
>Pushkin
>Dostoevsky
>Tolstoy
>Charles Dickens
>Mark Twain
>Melville
>Edgar Allen Poe
>Oscar Wilde

Prove me wrong

Mentions "paid by the word" Dickens, but not George "God-Tier" Eliot.
shame

>talkin' bout 19th century lit
>doesn't list one french author

wtf r u doin dude

>Hegel
>lit

this. nobody on Veeky Forums every mentions huysmans who's probably the best novel writer who ever lived

La-bas was shit

youre shit m9

Is there a single 20th/21st author of worth?

Tao Lin

Go to bed Tao

George Orwell is pretty based

Idk the 1920's were a pretty solid decade.

Replace one or both of the bottom two for Emily "Big" Dickinson

Also never read Pushkin. And agree somewhat about Dickens and the pay by the word meme, but He did a lot for commercializing books.

Never.

Sure, you may disagree with some names on my list. But do you refute my claim that the 19th century was the best era for literature?

20th Century da best

Prove it, fag

You are mingling literature and philosophy together

21st century is the best. We are living among the best authors of all time right now, such as Tao Lin, Alan Moore, Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Franzen, Savannah Brown, Zadie Smith and John Green.

Joyce
Woolf
Faulkner
Pound
Eliot
H.D.
Plath
ee
Ashbery
Williams (Both of them)
Lowry
Penn Warren

Alan Moore is 20th century

In a decade we can talk about whether Jerusalem is as good as Watchmen, V, or From Hell

It's better, on account of being an actual book

>Le elitism face

>Plato
>Buddha
>Plotinus
>Cicero
>Aristotle
>Montaigne
>Plutarch
>Willy Shakes
&ct


19th c. confirmed degenerate artistic wasteland

You can already talk about that. From Hell is a great work of creative history and a tome. Haven't finished Jerusalem but I already prefer V - Jerusalem is great but it is a try-hard work.

Flannery O'conner
Borges
Meme Wolfe

That's it