I like the Brontes as well, mostly Charlotte.
Oh dear and Fat B wears a kilt throughout most of those movies too...Originally Posted by kilted exile
Well you say that, but you're not the one that upon meeting new people has to do a "fat bastard" impression
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"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster."
Zippy the Pinhead
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Sorry JBI i was just joking.!
Oh dear kilted! It could be worse. every time i go away people always assume i drink guinness and ask me to say 'top o the mornin to ya'.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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H.G. Wells
I've just now read Jane Eyre, and I'm tempted to see Charlotte as one of the true great. Comparing her to Emily, however, is, to me, as good as comparing an apple with a bird. Their novels are so unlike...!
William Shakespeare.
"To thine own self be true."
(Hamlet)
James Joyce. Yeah, he's Irish, but what do you want?
What is being asked- English- As in from England not Ireland.
Is it really that hard to select an Author from England?
Is everyone who is posting Irish authors aware that there is an Irish Lit thread a few pages away?
Sorry am ranting! Again!
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"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Ah, sorry.What is being asked- English- As in from England not Ireland.
Is it really that hard to select an Author from England?
Is everyone who is posting Irish authors aware that there is an Irish Lit thread a few pages away?
Sorry am ranting! Again!
Well, Thomas Hardy, then, or T.S. Eliot (ah c'mon, he counts).
Oh, and Joseph Conrad, of COURSE.
<--clearly a modernist.
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Blake (amongst others) - his writing is truly from the heart and his poems are simple yet the meaning can be profound; I particularly like Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright.
William Shakespeare, Conrad, Keats
This is also "my" quote:
And this above all,
To thine own self be true.
George Orwell, Shakespeare, Woolf
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution" - Hannah Arendt.
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance" - James Joyce
Currently reading:
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath - Anne Stevenson
Niamh: "Many writer represent there countries culture and associating them with the wrong nation can bruise a small countries identity. Especially when that country was once under the power of the other. i know scotland and wales are apart of britain but they are their own countres at the same time and their writers should be recognised separately from that of England."
That's not easy, and is sometimes scarcely sensible, unless they are writing in Gaelic or Cymric. English literature is a melting pot of cultural influences, and it is not possible, for the most part to unravel the cultural strands that make the fabric of any writer's work.
A good example is Conan Doyle, whom you mentioned a few days ago as being Scottish. In fact, although he was born in Edinburgh, he was of an Irish family (and from the name and position of his family, I guess Norman-Irish, not Celtic-Irish.) Doyle went to school, and lived his adult life in England, but studied medicine in Scotland. So, the only valid national label to stick on him would be British (not confusing British with English, and remembering that, in his time, all of Ireland was part of Britain, and remembering too that his early influences included Poe and Bret Hart, and his writing career was boosted early on from the support that he had from America.)
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontė
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Thomas Hardy
Since Shakespeare is God, and I am making the assumption here that God is not of a particular nationality, I will have to exclude him...
Woolf, Conrad (Good to finally see some luv for this amazing writer), Austen and Lawrence, in that order.
"Woof is overated..." *harrumphs* maybe you could notify every college library on the planet to this affect. If they remove all their Woolf related books they would have a few spare ROWS of book shelves. It must have been sheer luck or coincidence that she caused that many humans to contemplate her writing over the years...
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