Search:

My personal favorites:
1. Eliot (line for line, none of the Whitman masterpieces move me as much as Eliot's best poems)
2. Frost (Provide, Provide is so impressive)
3. Whitman
4. Dickinson
5....

Interesting, fun list. Thanks for putting it together. To nitpick, I agree with Corona, and I'd put Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, and a few other Shakespeare plays...

Vota,
I agree. I'm no doubt biased, being an English major,
but I have yet to read anything from non-Western sources (I only read in English or French translations) that approaches the power and...

The Road and Beloved are my two favorite from that list. As much as I love Hemingway, I don't think Old Man and the Sea is among his better books. I can't get into Marilynn Robinson so far. I'm...

Interesting. I also have never found Updike's Rabbit books to be as intense or memorable or powerful as the work of his top rivals. I like some of his short stories. He's smooth, he's elegant. ...

"Happiness is wishing to be what you are." Erasmus.
Because Living Well is the Best Revenge, or because Happiness gets harder as I get older, because my standards get higher. Not sure why.

Scheh, in your quest to read all the Pulitzer winners, can you say which discovery has been most rewarding?
My bucket list:
Finish a strong novel.
Finish a music album that makes more money than...

The "What Makes a Gentleman?" topic seems good to me. I love both novels. Lawrence Olivier's role as Heathcliff in the movie version always stuck with me. I thought Emily Bronte was such a talent;...

1: I'd like to re-read the Sound and the Fury. That was my favorite novel for a few years in high school. I finally finished As I Lay Dying, really liked it. I'm not as crazy about Light in...

The only Hardy novel I've read is Tess. I do love his poetry. I think Roman Polanski made a film version; I've not seen it.
As for the rest of your list, Scheh, I thought the Power and the Glory...

Interesting. I especially liked this part:

When a man, wi' heartless slighten,
Mid become a maiden's blighten,
He mid cearelessly vorseake her,
But must answer to her Meaker;

Sounds a bit...

Well said, mortalterror.
Just like Beethoven's 9th has the length and range and development and organization to express much more than any minute-long piano piece by Schumann, as much as l love...

I love "Best of" Lists. It helps you define what you find effective in a work of Art. Great provokers of discussion. Life is too short to be bored, and when I find a critic I respect (like Harold...

Yeah, I enjoy Chekhov page for page more than I enjoy Tolstoy or Dostoyevski, in general. I think Dostoyevski has some incredible scenes, amazingly vivid moments, but I find much of his writing...

Hello,
I'm a literature-obsessed writer, I've also worked as a teacher, tutor, mental health worker, etc. I also love playing sports, trekking through the deep woods listening to an audio book (I...