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Must be authors, poets or playwrights who wrote in English...

My 4:

Shakespeare, Twain, Faulkner, and Joyce.
 
Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, and Shakespeare.

And maybe Tolkien just to piss people off.
 
Correct answer:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Spencer

My answer:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Joyce
 
wakephan09 said:
Correct answer:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Spencer

My answer:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Joyce
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Spencer is so overrated. Faerie Queene sucks balls. We get it, Queen Elizabeth was good, no need to go on for 100,000 lines (and still not be finished). Satyrane is the only good character.

Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Eliot for my money.
 
wakephan09 said:
Correct answer:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Spencer

My answer:

Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Joyce
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Can we count Chaucer as having written in English? I have tried to read the originial in it's Middle English form, and it is BRUTAL....

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
 
Coach O said:
Can we count Chaucer as having written in English? I have tried to read the originial in it's Middle English form, and it is BRUTAL....

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Click to expand...

That's like porn to wakephan09.
 
Coach O said:
Can we count Chaucer as having written in English? I have tried to read the originial in it's Middle English form, and it is BRUTAL....

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Click to expand...

I listened to a History of the English Language course on CD a few years ago. It talked about how modern English really came out of Shakespeare, and everything before him is basically unrecognizable to a modern reader. It just amazes me how influential ole Bill really was/is.
 
Coach O said:
Can we count Chaucer as having written in English? I have tried to read the originial in it's Middle English form, and it is BRUTAL....

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Click to expand...

the other day at work i said something about someone's memo (full of spelling errors) sounded like it was written in middle english. people were confused what middle english was and i busted out the first four lines of the above. it was bawce. well to me at least, everyone else looked at me like i was an idiot.
 
I'm not sure if she belongs on this list, but I'm a big Flannery O'Connor fan.
 
i'd like to see what the tagger thinks.

truif, i really like flanner o'connor. do/have you read much Raymond Carver? he's easily my favorite short story writer.
 
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