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[thelosthoplite]

Too much free time led to this analogy that my friends and I started making up. We took the entire literary canon, and decided who would be what musician. The general heuristic was that classical authors were pre-60s, medieval times was the 60s, the renaissance/enlightenment was the 70s, modernism was the 80s, and pomo the 90s/now. But this is very tentative and not too strict. Here are some results:

Shakespeare - The Beatles
John Milton - The Rolling Stones
Joseph Conrad - Jimi Hendrix
Dante Alighieri - Eric Clapton
Homer - Elvis Presley
Ovid - Roy Orbison
Virgil - Chuck Berry
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Sly Stone
Leo Tolstoy - George Clinton
Ivan Turgenev - Isaac Hayes
Alexander Pushkin - Al Green
Virginia Woolf - Patti Smith
D.H. Lawrence - Prince
Luigi Pirandello - Ian Curtis
George Orwell - Kurt Cobain
Thomas Pynchon - Radiohead
Ezra Pound - Karlheinz Stockhausen
Chuck Palahniuk - Marilyn Manson
Sylvia Plath - Cat Power

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Ones that I took the liberty to amend (and modify from original matchings):

Geoffrey Chaucer - Bob Dylan (formerly Bruce Springsteen)
Boccaccio - Johnny Cash
David Walker - Black Flag
August Strindberg - Iggy Pop

Any other ones worth adding? What changes would you make?

Also, it would be nice to have suggestions for the following authors:

Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, August Strindberg, Miguel de Cervantes, Lucan, W.B. Yeats, John Keats, James Joyce

And these musicians:

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Jim Morrison, Lou Reed, John Cale, the Pixies, Grateful Dead