English: Shakespeare. Spanish: Cervantes. Italian: Dante Portuguese:

goethe you fucking retard

and i know you're trying to bait something so you can come in with trogdolyte-tier reddit comments on >hur durr goethe is shit

kys

What about the Swiss?

Kneeche

Goethe.

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>>9228516
>Shakespeare
born in 1564
>Cervantes
born in 1547
>Dante
born in 1265
>Camões
born in 1524
>Rabelais
born in 1483

>Goethe
born in 1749

Lutter.

>>9228531
The Germans were late bloomers

>>9228511
nothing, the germans have shit literature in any field but philosophy

>>9228511
Proust > Rabelais ?

Also Thomas Mann for german.

>>9228646
nope

>>9228646
>proust > Rabelais
dude fuck no.

>>9228646
I think he meant foundational authors. So USA would be Whitman, Russia Pushkin etc.

>>9228553
Not so late as the Russians: Pushkin, 1837 (younger than Emerson..)

>>9228812
Then Montaigne certainly over Rabs for France-

>>9228812
If it's foundational then wouldn't English be Chaucer?

>>9228511
Vondel.
>not German
They were part of the Holy Roman Empire in the high medieval period. It's close enough.

>>9228915
eh, but he wrote in Middle English. Shakespeare has much more influence on modern English language literature.

>>9228928
I'll give you that.

>>9228915
>Chaucer
>USA

Get the fuck out, brainlet.

>>9228950
gr8 b8 m8

>>9228950
This kind of shitposting isn't clever or funny and brings the general post quality skidding down. Please refrain from making posts like this in the future. Thank you.

>>9228950
Most people in the USA speak English.

>>9228950
>strawmanning

>>9228920
>foundational german writer
>wrote in dutch

no nigga
no

>>9228984
Dutch is a German language. The "High German" that Hitler liked and which is now considered modern German didn't even exist in the same timeframe as the others.

>>9228511
Gernan: Walther von der Vogelweide, ca. 1200.

>>9229000
literally who lmao

>>9229003
>he doesn't know about mediavel german literature.

Disgusting t.bh

>>9228965
English is a country since when?

zettels traum tho

>>9228511
What connects these writers

>>9229179
brain-teaser

>>9228812
Gogol was more influential tho. Considerably.

>>9229191
Yeah, could be Gogol too.

>>9228511
That's a stupid way to spell Montaigne.
>>9228928
Middle English is close enough to modern English for your point to be irrelevant.

>>9228993
This is such a hare-brained simplification that I hope you are trolling, otherwise you are an immense retard.

The Italian language sure as fuck didn't "exist" too back then when Dante was alive, his Tuscan dialect, out of dozens of others, was made the base on the unified Italian language would be codified centuries later was because he made it prestigious with his writing.

Are you telling me that High German dialects didn't exist in the 17th century? Or that the seminal literature work in the German language should be drawn from Dutch just because it's also included in the linguistic classification as a Germanic language?

The names in the OP are there exactly because they codified the modern forms of their respective languages, which is why Shakespeare is in there instead of Chaucer, Rabelais instead of Proust, and why a dutch-language writer doesn't belongs in the German category. You mouth-breather.

>>9229392
>The names in the OP are there exactly because they codified the modern forms of their respective languages, which is why Shakespeare is in there instead of Chaucer, Rabelais instead of Proust, and why a dutch-language writer doesn't belongs in the German category. You mouth-breather.

Finally someone with a brain.

>>9229392
Shakespeare doesn't really fit in then, tho, he's pretty far from LME.

Goethe, of course. Faust is a masterpiece.