>In 1936, a quarterly magazine for book collectors called The Colophon polled its readers to pick the ten authors whose works would be considered classics in the year 2000.1. Sinclair Lewis2. Willa Cather3. Eugene O’Neill4. Edna St. Vincent Millay5. Robert Frost6. Theodore Dreiser7. James Truslow Adams8. George Santayana9. Stephen Vincent Benet10. James Branch Cabellhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/future-classics-readers-of-1936-predict-which-authors-will-endure-143151313/
>>25287318You tell me.
I really wonder what could possibly have gone wrong
>>25287318Lewis, Frost, and Dreiser are all out of fashion right now but I think any literate person familiar with American literature would still call them classic. Probably applies to Millay too, for that matter.
>>25287318>Edna St. Vincent Millay>Robert FrostWe still know these two, at least
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>>25287318I’m in my 40s and read over 500 books. I’ve read 6/10 in the list and know of 8/10. I will not share my ignorance of the 2 I’ve never heard of.
>>25288477It's the last two isn't it.
>>25287318At least they got Frost and O'Neill right, ironically both famous for something other than novels
>>25288492O'Neill's work has gotten majorly overshadowed by Miller and Williams. I imagine in 50 years or so he'll probably be all but forgotten.Frost will almost certainly be read even centuries from now though.
>>25288482Very good!!!! Most of the others are pretty easy to come across if you read a lot.
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>>25288530Or you simply were studious in high school, you unread pleb
