How many do you recognise?

[The Unnamable]

Many of these are easy. How many do you recognise?


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[RobinHood3000]

Aww, nuts, um...number 1 reminds me of Sigmund Freud, but I'm not certain. Please don't mock me if I'm wrong.

[Taliesin]

We can only recognize Kafka and Eliot. Number 8 looks a bit like Keats too, but we aren't sure.

Oh well, now we have spoken and removed the last doubts about our ignorance in the field of faces of writers.

[The Unnamable]

I’m not going to mock anyone. I can’t see any shame in not knowing. They are all writers in the conventional sense of the word – so Freud isn’t on there.

Yes, Kafka and Eliot are there – and 8 is Keats. I think Kafka is one of the more unusual looking members of the group – like an Eastern European Norman Bates.

[Pensive]

I can only recognize George Eliot.

[Whifflingpin]

7 looks like Bunyan
18 is Dickens, maybe
Is 11 Rabelais, or Swift? No - its Alexander Pope

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[Virgil]

7 - I think is John Donne *on second thought* or is that Milton?
2 - W.B. Yeats
4 - Sylvia Plath
5 - Tony Morrison
14 - William Wordsworth

Others already mentioned that I recognized:
8 - Keats
12 - George Eliot
13 - Kafka
18 - Dickens
20 - T.S. Eliot

I recognize some of the other faces, but I just can't associated with a name.
Guesses:
17 - F. Scott Fitzgerald?
10 - Dylan Thomas?
21 - W.H Auden?
15 - Robertson Davies?
22 - Evelyn Waugh?

[Sami]

Sorry to lower the tone, but who is the Mr. attractive number 16? He’s gorgeous!

[Virgil]

Sorry to lower the tone, but who is the Mr. attractive number 16? He’s gorgeous!
Sorry to lower the tone even further: ME! Can I buy you a drink? :D

[Sami]

:D Virgil don’t be saucy!

Seriously though, I think I have a stereotypical image of writers as tending to be less than good looking. I guess that number 16 proves disproves this assumption.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Isn't 16 Martin Amis?

[Xamonas Chegwe]

And 15 is William Golding.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

And 3 looks like Ian McEwan.

[Scheherazade]

1- Steinbeck

6- Hardy

9- Ted Hughes

10- Heller (or is he?)

15- Golding

[Xamonas Chegwe]

And 9 is Ted Hughes.

[Sami]

Isn't 16 Martin Amis?

Goodness - Yep, you're right. That's an unusually flattering photo of him. He usually looks more smug than sultry.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

10 is not Heller. I think it might be Seamus Heaney.


...and google agrees.

[samercury]

nvm........

[Petrarch's Love]

You guys are good. These are the ones I got before looking at the subsequent posts:

2. Yeats
4. Plath
5. Morrison
7. Milton
8. Keats
11. Pope
12. Eliot
14. Wordsworth
17. Fitzgerald
18. Dickens

I thought Steinbeck looked familiar, but I wasn't sure. Wow, I don't remember seeing a picture of Kafka before, but I agree with Unnamable about the Norman Bates resemblance.

[IrishCanadian]

Wow ... when I looked the only ones I recognized were Yeats and Kafka. Its good to know what they looked like when you read them though.

[The Unnamable]

1. John Steinbeck
2. WB Yeats
3. Ian McEwan
4. Sylvia Plath
5. Toni Morrison
6. Thomas Hardy
7. John Milton
8. John Keats
9. Ted Hughes
10. Seamus Heaney
11. Alexander Pope
12. George Eliot
13. Franz Kafka
14. William Wordsworth
15. William Golding
16. Martin Amis
17. F Scott Fitzgerald
18. Charles Dickens
19.
20. TS Eliot
21.
22.


They’re a sorry looking bunch but only three left. Two are novelists and one is a poet.

Thank you, Sami – when someone moans that the ones I chose are nearly all men, I can retort that a lady’s enjoyment of Literature is confined to deciding which writer is the prettiest. :D Virgil, you don’t look like Amis – from what I can remember, you are more like number 3.

I like Amis, despite the savaging he got from blp. I love Money and The Information and once gave the latter to another English teacher to read. She hated it, tersely observing, “it’s a man’s book.” If he looks smug, it’s because he ought to be.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Just to save us flicking back and forth too much.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y73/stonemewhatalife/Lit_figures.jpg

[Xamonas Chegwe]

19 is H G Wells, I think.

[The Unnamable]

HG Wells it is. Looks more like Gladstone's Fag.

[Sami]

Thank you, Sami – when someone moans that the ones I chose are nearly all men, I can retort that a lady’s enjoyment of Literature is confined to deciding which writer is the prettiest.

Ladies? I thought we were all “wimmin” since they let us into the universities!

Don’t know about Marin Amis writing “boys books” – I quite like him. The monstrous middle class baby in “London Fields” is hilarious.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I'm about to start reading "Yellow Dog" by Martin Amis tonight.

I love London Fields as well. The things that stick in the memory are:

The pinching game (with that baby that Sami mentions) - excellent!
The two separate metaphors for a flock of birds taking to the air (1) a join-the-dots puzzle and (2) a clenched fist.
And "Dog**** Park" - when I first read that line, I remember spitting a mouthful of wine across the room onto the TV. The name sums up every park I ever knew in my childhood.

Must go now, I have to practice my darts: the integrity of the stance, the determination of the throw, etc...

[Virgil]

Is 22 Graham Greene?

[Virgil]

I think 19 is H.G. Wells.

[The Unnamable]

Ladies? I thought we were all “wimmin” since they let us into the universities!
Have you been allowed into the universities as well now? I’m way behind with these new fangled ideas – I didn’t even realise you could study courses in shopping, applying cosmetics and being generally nothing more than decorative. :D


Virgil, 22 is Graham Greene and 19 is HG Wells. The remaining chap is a very British poet who was a good friend of Martin Amis’s father, Kingsley.

[blp]

Sorry to lower the tone, but who is the Mr. attractive number 16? He’s gorgeous!

Martin Amis. But he's not very tall at all.

[blp]

21 Phillip Larkin

[The Unnamable]

Martin Amis. But he's not very tall at all.
He's taller than Pope - number 11. :nod: Stop tyring to make people feel unfavourably towards him. He's hot and talented - how many other writers can claim as much?

[IrishCanadian]

He's hot and talented - how many other writers can claim as much?
Some of us are trying ... and trying ... but I doubt if I'm succeding here. :D

[RobinHood3000]

SHHH!!! Unnamable! You're makin' us look bad! :p

[The Unnamable]

21 Phillip Larkin
Philip Larkin it is. His dying words are reported as “I am going to the inevitable.”

Here are a few others while I’m in a Larkin mood:

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."-Ludwig van Beethoven

"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!" (To his housekeeper, when asked if he wanted his last words recorded.)-Karl Marx

“Nothing, but death.” When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted. -Jane Austen

“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.” -Humphrey Bogart

“I'm bored with it all.” Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later. -Winston Churchill

“I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .” -Dylan Thomas

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.” -Oscar Wilde



“Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.” -George Sanders’ Suicide note.


“How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.” Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma. -James French, d. 1966

“Let's do it!” Executed by firing squad, Utah. -Gary Gilmore, d. January 17, 1977

“Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.” Executed by guillotine.
“Monsieur, I beg your pardon.”
Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot. -Marie Antoinette

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Thank you for that Unnameable - It was a lot of fun - now post another at once! - Entertain us!!!!

[Virgil]

“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.” -Humphrey Bogart



That is always good advice!! :nod:



“I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .” -Dylan Thomas
Sounds like it would make the Darwin award. :brow:

Yes, very entertaining, Unnamable

[blp]

He's taller than Pope - number 11. :nod: Stop tyring to make people feel unfavourably towards him. He's hot and talented - how many other writers can claim as much?

No, no. People only think he's talented because they think he's hot. In real life his nose/brow relationship looks a bit weird and his prose is flashy and unobservant.

[RobinHood3000]

"French fries"...:lol:...now there's a guy with an enviable approach to death!

[Pendragon]

You'll be able to tell I didn't read the thread before posting, I'm sure, by the number I get wrong....[EDIT That was an understatement!]

3. Peter Benchley
6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Copernicus
8. Shelly
11. Sequioa, inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet?
13. Franz Kafka
18. Charles Dickens
I think I saw Frost and H. G. Wells but I couldn't pick them out. :confused:

[Miss Darcy]

Is number 7 Dante Alighieri?
12 - George Eliot
13 - Franz Kafka
18 - Charles Dickens
(though other people have already got these)

[Miss Darcy]

7. Copernicus

That actually sounds more correct. He looks incredibly familiar, and somehow, just what I'd imagine Dante to look like...but I did a Google Image Search on Dante Alighieri just now to disprove my...strange hypothesis.

[Gibran]

Yeats,Kafka,Dickens,Eliot.That's all I know.

[Basil]

Martin Amis. But he's not very tall at all.
I will always like Keats for a self-deprecating remark he once made about his height. After speaking a bit critically of women in a letter to Benjamin Bailey (he worried that the reality of women fell short of his "Boyish imagination"), Keats ruefully admitted that he didn't "suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five foot high likes them or not."