Who are your Top 5 Supreme Literary Geniuses

> Homer or Aeschylus

> Vergil

> Dante

> Chaucer

> Tolstoy

>Barth
>McElroy
>Gaddis
>Wallace
>Pynchon
Yep.

>Vergil

What?

>no Shakespeare

>Cervantes
>Dostoievsky
>Shakespeare
>Homer
>Joyce

>Wallace
Ew...

>Homer
>Author of Luke-Acts
>Dante
>Rabelais
>Shakespeare

>Nietzsche
>Nabokov
>Melville
>Zola
>Balzac

In no particular order:
Shakespeare
Dante
Cao Xueqin
Homer
The Yahwist collective

>or Aeschylus
wew boy

What's wrong with Aeschylus? The Greeks are dope man: Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Apollonius, Chrysostomos, Nazianzus, Maximus the Confessor

And then there's the Latin writers, endless richnesss and beauty.

Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Homer
Dante
Proust

Homer
Dante
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Melville

Trying to hard

Why Dostoyevski?

Anyone having a single new world born author on his list should hang himself. Besides, you hacks are not even acknowledging the best Greek.

Godlist:
Theokritos
Tolstoy
Shakespeare
Flaubert
Dostoievski

Rulfo
Homer
The Gilgamesh poet or editor
Shakespeare
Joyce

>Melville
>Homerus
>Cervantes
>Pynchon
>Dostoevsky

>May Gibbs
>Norman Lindsay
>A. A. Milne
>Mem Fox
>Kenneth Grahame

>Flaubert

LOL someone is trying awfully hard.

>Ferdowsi
>Edgar Allan Poe
>Iqbal
>Homer
>Attar

lol?
in caps?

I'll take that as achievement in hurting some American's delicate perception of himself.

I also take it for granted you were forced to read Madamma for some school related activity, so do yourself a favour and pick Salammbo at very least, to see what he can achieve on his own.

>he naturally assumes I'm American and takes pride in "hurting" me

Someone has a complex.

And I like Flaubert btw but he's nowhere near that good. You are trying too hard.

Shakespeare 3 times
Melville twice

The Epic of Gilgamesh is like the Bible or The Odyssey; probably has hundreds of co-authors over a period of perhaps 500 years

>Adolf Hitler

>Julius Evola

>William Luther Pierce

>David Foster Wallace

>Elliot Rodger

>Elliot Rodger
>Timothy McVeigh
>Ted Kaczynski
the list could go on

sunt lacrimae ranarum

anyone who can pick five is either a weak head or picking for social capital

>Jojo Moyes

>David Levithan

>Markus Zusak

>Cassandra Clare

>John Green

Why do Anglo's feel the need to butcher the names of ancient Greeks and Romans?

Because we don't speak Ancient Greek or Latin

Publius VERGILius Maro

>Shakespeare
>Shakespeare
>Shakespeare
>Shakespeare
>Shakespeare