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trishtrash in book_memes

The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights and Poets of All Time

Dec 07, 2009 18:49

For those of you wondering ‘who decides these things?’, the list below is from the book The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2001), written by Daniel S. Burt ( Read more... )

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trishtrash December 7 2009, 18:53:31 UTC

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34 pax_athena December 7 2009, 18:59:52 UTC

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joonscribble December 7 2009, 19:10:27 UTC

1 William Shakespeare [X ( ... )

christina_reads December 7 2009, 19:28:19 UTC

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katwilde December 7 2009, 20:07:58 UTC

1 William Shakespeare [x ( ... )

velvetcreme December 7 2009, 20:20:54 UTC

I think you'd really like Baudelaire! He's sort of the 19th century French version of coffee & cigarettes.

katwilde December 8 2009, 04:04:40 UTC

Haha. Welcome to my winter reading! What do you recommend I read first?

velvetcreme December 8 2009, 16:14:18 UTC

As far as Baudelaire goes, Fleurs du mal/Flowers of Evil are the poems to read, dark and decadent. From the other French authors, I've just finished one by Zola and am working through Madame Bovary so I'll be reviewing them soon on my journal; Balzac is also surprising readable and modern. I loved Middlemarch by George Eliot, so I'd recommend that too... and I absolutely love Pablo Neruda and poems are always easier to read when you're busy! 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a really beautiful short collection of his. Also Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, especially The Masque of Red Death, are creepy and fantastic.