Who are the 3 greatest writers in the English langauge

homer Hitler and dfw

Can any worthy argument be made for not including Shakespeare?

I guess opinion is the keyword so

Nabokov
Joyce
Pynchon

Shakespeare
William Tyndale
James Joyce

>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Chaucer

In regards to influence and importance to the language and literature. In my personal opinion,

>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Melville

>>8398450
Joyce
Shakespeare
Proust

Shakespeare and Milton are the top 2...I am shocked that no one in here has mentioned Milton yet..... you simply cannot deny Milton's influence

after them the 3rd choice is tricky, many candidates, but probably Chaucer

>>8398483
>proust

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James Madison
Isaac Asimov
Tolkien
If Oscar Wilde was more prolific he might replace Tolkien.

proust


wut?

Dude actually said Proust he was French

>>8398488
i was thinking same when i saw the post. Milton/Shakespeare/Joyce i guess

Tyndale in an interesting choice.

>>8398469
Definitely Nabokov, I wish I could include Prosut, Hawthorne, Shakespeare; Woolf gets an honorable mention.

Saul Bellow three times

chaucer, spenser and shakespeare

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>>8398723
>Prosut

What are the criteria for 'best writer'?

Dickens is one

Shakespeare
Chaucer
Proust

Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Mishima

Putin

Hitler, Trump, Mohamed Ali

>>8398450
george eliot
joseph conrad
charles dickens

>>8398450
Dickens
Shakespeare
Me.

Stalin, Mobi-dick, Marques

>>8399591
>charles dickens
>>8399120
>Dickens is one
Was he even white?

Hillary Clinton, Curt Cobain, Nigel Farage

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>>8399606
Painfully unfunny posts.

>>8399615
>Painfully, Unfunny, Posts.
Who are they? Never read them.

Edgar Alan Poe.
H.P. Lovecraft.
Philip K. Dick.

Ideas > Prose.

>>8399623
ehhh

>>8399615
A good portion of those weren't even jokes.

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>>8399764
Also forgot pic.

>>8398450
Shakespeare, for the 2nd and 3rd place ther eis no way to choose and be fair

Chaucer, Milton, Joyce, Eliot, Melville, Woolf, Faulkner and maybe even Henry James. Pynchon and Gaddis could be included I guess

>>8399623
Yeah, because books about government-controlled pink lasers are the highest form of literature

>>8399623
You're an idiot.

Shakespeare, undeniably. No single writer has exerted such influence: no single writer ever will.
Milton
Joyce

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>>8398450
Shakespeare
Joyce
Wordsworth