How can Americans compete with any of these: >Dante >Shakespeare

>Dante
>wrote an okayish poem about hell, the rest are boring af
>Shakespeare
>a few are okay (macbeth) but it's mostly pretentious intellectual masturbation
>Cervantes
>literally fucking who
>Goethe
>literally fucking who

>>8335176
>burgerman thinks he makes an interesting post but he just looks like an uneducated idiot
>the same goes for OP

What makes these authors so good anon? Give me the full side of your agruement.

>>8335198
they had really big dicks

>>8335176
clearly bait, please try a little harder in the future

Americans can claim Shakespeare just as easily as any Brit. What makes you think present day Britain is the more rightful heir of English tradition than the Americans who came from there?

>>8335203
Made me kek, have an upvote ;)

>>8335160
That's only four tho. A party of american writermon should have a chance to win if controlled by a skilled trainer.

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>>8335160
We're still alive.

>>8335227
* a full party of six

>>8335215
underrated.

not because I'm an American who wants to claim
Shakespeare, but because he more closely embodies the American revolutionary spirit than those of the English colonial tradition.

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>>8335232
>still alive
This was a triumph

>>8335215
not as much as a southern englishman

>>8335251
I'm making a note here: "huge success"
It's hard to overstate may huge euphoria

>>8335160
>>Dante
Divine Comedy
>>Shakespeare
The Tragedies
>>Cervantes
Don Quixote
>>Goethe
Faust
>>David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest

All of those gentlemen were American in spirit, through and through. Next.

>>8335176
>I'm proud of my ignorance
You don't know the authors of Faust and Don quixote?

>>8335160
I'd answer
>Melville
>Dickens
>Pynchon
>Whitman
respectively, in that order

>>8335374
>Dickens

>>8335160
>American
>literature

>>8335186
/thread

>>8335215
What makes you think Americans are in any way descended from the British? Perhaps true hundreds of years ago, far from it now. They are mongrels with many far-reaching antecedents.

>>8335411
>1▶
>>>8335160 (OP)
>>American
>>literature
this desu

Believing nations can own authors is spooky as fuck.

>>8335374
Replace Whitman with Faulkner

>>8335160
borges is american

>>8335374
Whitman should be first
Dickens should be Dickinson

>>8335255
this.

Shakespearean English is most similar to a southern accent

>>8335453
its a language moron

>>8335777
Most similar to a west country accent.