>Gaddis >Gass >Vollmann >Shakespeare >Faulkner

Thomas Mann
Thomas Paine
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Wolfe

Thomas pretty good desu

>>8778364
Paine sucks though

>>8778352
Yep. The second best is Patrick, which literally means patrician.

>Milton
>Keats
>Steinbeck
>Williams
>Barth
>Green
>the Apostle
>Tolkein

>>8778379
>Green
>But not Hawkes or Fowles

C'mon.

james, robert, and charles are some other extremely lit names.

>>8778399
>>8778369
I won't trust you without names to prove it.

What makes a name literary in your opinion?

>>8778399
So is (You)

decided to sperg out and plugged all the authors on bloom's canon list (http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html) into a word frequency counter. here's the top five most common forenames, with frequency and some examples in parenthesis!

1 John (43: donne, bunyan, milton, dryden, keats, mill, passos, steinbeck, o'hara, cheever)
2 Thomas (28: malory, more, hobbes, mann, pynchon)
3 William (25: shakespeare, blake, wordsworth, thackeray, yeats)
4 Robert (19: browning, stevenson, musil, walser, frost)
5 George (16: eliot, shaw, orwell, sand, meredith)

>>8778488
You made good use out of your spergpowers.

>>8778368
Butthurt christposter detected

Incredible observations. Do you think it's a coincidence these are also ones of the most popular names?

>>8778488
>Bloom
>The guy who places Huxley next to Lawrence and Orwell to Joyce
Couldn't you have picked a better list?