Here are some truthy opinions about writing. Some famous writers ranked, in order from best to shit.
God-tier writing:
Dante
Nabokov
Joyce
Proust
Great writing:
The Bard
Joyce
Milton
Blake
Borges
Wolfe
Pynchon
Good writing:
Fitzgerald
Dostoevsky
McCarthy
Lovecraft
Mediocre writing:
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Stephen King
Bad writing:
DFW
Vonnegut
Joseph Heller
Move The Bard to mediocre and I'm pretty much good with this list.
>DFW on "Bad"
Are we to assume that you think these sets aren't mutually exclusive, or did you just copy this list, modify it, and forget to remove Joyce from 1 of the 2 categories?
Move Joyce and Proust to great.
Move Nabovok to bad.
Move Shakespeare and Milton to God.
Move Dostoevsky to great.
God tier:
>Tolstoy
>Proust
>Woolf
>Joyce
>Nabokov
Bad:
>DFW
>Hemingway
>McCarthy
>Gaddis
>Move Joyce and Proust to great.
They set the standard for our time, and labored excessively to achieve their greatness. They'll be staying there.
>Move Nabovok to bad.
Nabokov is silky smooth rhythmic prose, I can't see a reason to move him as of yet.
>Move Shakespeare and Milton to God.
A little too ornate and brittle for each. Both are only quoted out of tradition, and sound awkward and stilted today.
>Move Dostoevsky to great.
While a brilliant storyteller, and deservedly a titan of the modern age, his actual prose and sentence structure was a means to an end, and is high pulp.
DFW is bad and you should feel bad
>Faulkner no where to be found
Yikes
hes barely above fitzgerald
Off yourself
what of virginia woolf? what of kafka or faulkner?
WHAT OF CHEKHOV???
can you bitches stop reposting terrible posts in an already existing thread as a new thread
>Pynchon
>great
He fell for the meme.
if you've read them you'd know where to place them.
Faulkner was leagues above Fitzgerald.
>wolfe
what of Petrarch? what of Goethe??
so, you have Gene Wolfe and Shakespeare on the same tier. What in the fucking christ is wrong with you?
show me a poem by wolfe that compares to sonnet 147, for example. no no, i'll wait.
DFW is actually good.
Add Sir Thomas Browne to God-tier. And you can't compare writing in translation to original English prose or verse, it's incoherent.
God-tier writing:
Dante
Nabokov
Joyce
Proust
Great writing:
The Bard
Joyce
Milton
Blake
Borges
Wolfe
Pynchon
Good writing:
Fitzgerald
Dostoevsky
Joyce
McCarthy
Lovecraft
Mediocre writing:
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Stephen King
Joyce
Bad writing:
DFW
Vonnegut
Joyce
Joseph Heller
He ranked them as writers over all, not as a poets, you autistic faggot
one single poem written by Shakespeare is greater than Wolfe's entire oeuvre combined and rewritten by a better author. that was my implication, you scumsucking shitforbrains. go inhale some heptane and set fire to your nosehairs. you inside out cunt, who the fuck are you to interfere anyway?
I am sure Wolfe refers here to Thomas, not Gene.
well, if that's the case, maybe, i know little of him. i doubt it though.
>Bard anywhere but god-tier
>A little too ornate and brittle for each. Both are only quoted out of tradition, and sound awkward and stilted today.
kys
>kys
you sound like you're inching towards that yourself, oh ornate and brittle one
>nou
convincing.
>ornate and brittle
But like what the hell do you even mean by this. Nakakov and Joyce are 'ornate'.
>brittle
Seriously what the fuck. All great prose is 'brittle'.