Why is 19th century English superior to that of all other periods?

>>9755913
Other than some rare exceptions, like Shakespeare; English is a shitty literary language. The Germans, Russians, and even possibly the French have better works. Although English is above stuff like Spanish and Italian, which only have one famous book. (Don Quixote, and Divine Comedy respectively)

>>9755937
the irish seem to use it effectively.

>>9755942
>tfw you colonise a land of potato niggers and they end up writing better literature in your language

>>9755937
No way. English is under-appreciated as a literary language because on the surface, it is indeed a language of shopkeepers. And it's complex and clumsy in certain ways and is a three-way love child of different language families. All this is true. But it also gives English certain strengths. English is a multi-paradigm language, for one. It has many registers. It is adaptable and easily absorbs other languages. And so on. English doesn't look like the fastest car on the race track, but it has a beast of an engine.

>>9755952
worth it, at least they became useful, imstead of the normal niggers.

>>9755952
Hmm... maybe they were never "potato niggers" to begin with, Englishman!

>>9755942
Other than Joyce, which Irish authors do you like?

>>9755993
>not potato niggers
keep telling yourself that buddy

>>9756068
been reading beckett lately, just before, o'brien, that's plenty. they're all three geniuses. oh! and turns out laurence sterne was born in ireland, hohohoho

>>9755965
Isn't mostly because English has been pigeon-holed by other languages as a language of simplicity, Orwell, Wells, etc. heavily pushed this narrative and politicians followed suit.

19th century english literature is so fucking boring

>>9755913
Because it isn't? Elizabethan and Jacobean English was the best.