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
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