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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
That's the first image that came to my mind as soon as I saw the thread title.  |
Ditto.
Great question but I can't vote for any of these authors though I greatly admire many of them. We simply have no way of knowing what works will speak to people in a thousand years' time. Within the second
millennia (in the English speaking language) it's obviously Shakespeare. But 20th Century? Chances are the whole concept of what we now regard as literature will be seen as archaic in a thousand years. I mean, Shakespeare might have had a ROTFL session with Ben Jonson at the prospect of a collection of his stuff being touted as literature and taught in colleges. He never got past grammar school!
And I don't wanna hear that authorship question crap. They absolutely studied Homer (
in Greek) at grammar school in England of 1575.