Is Smollett the best 18th century writer?

>>8622762
18th century literature was a mistake. It's nothing but trash.

>>8622776
i know i shouldn't keep being surprised this board is pleb as fuck yet it keeps happening

>>8622786
it was though
france ruined it with bs rules they made up

File: Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg (295KB, 1024x1263px) Image search: [Google]

295KB, 1024x1263px

NOPE

>>8622762
>There is not the Smollett trace in my brain who he is

>>8622930
Are you thinking of theatre? You should actually read the big 18th century novelists

>>8623199
Mein Neger

>>8623199
Exhaustingly earnest and somber, never wrote anything as good as Peregrine Pickle

>>8622762
>Is Smollett the best 18th century writer?
i dont know

File: heh.jpg (35KB, 500x558px) Image search: [Google]

35KB, 500x558px

No.

>>8623305
Richardson, Smollett and Fielding are all trash. Goethe and Sterne are actually good, haven't read anyone else.

>>8623414
Why is Fielding trash?

>>8622762

I wouldn't think so but he's wildly enjoyable. He paints such wonderful pictures of england at the time, I'm going through humphry clinker right now.

From what i know of him he was pretty extreme and like a wild boy of the /lit/ world who was always on the outside.

Daniel Defoe is quite good too though, anyone who gets put in stocks and recites poetry while having flowers thrown his way (possibly) is cool.

18th century writers in england are very overlooked.

>>8623423
>Hey guys check out my picaresque hero, he goes on funny adventures
>But Henry, everyone else is writing the same thing
>Yeah, but I'm really making fun of everyone else

>>8623426
It's always seemed strange to me that Samuel Johnson hated Fielding but was mates with Smollett, who's debatably filthier and definitely crueler
>>8623431
not really accurate at all