DemosthenesTully (Cicero)Lactantius ChrysostomAddisonSteeleJohnsonHumeSmithBurkeGibbonLambHazlittDe QuincyMacaulayNewmanMillDarwinRuskinGreenHuxleyPater
You forgot Burgess
>>25498037Obligatory Whitman, Flaubert, Proust, Celine mentions. Arguably Henry James, controversial as he may be. How about Carlyle?
>>25498037>Tully (Cicero)Tacitus is better
>>25498037Thomas BrowneJonathan EdwardsCharles DoughtyMelvilleEmerson
Jane Austen and Edward Bulwer-Lytton>Addison and Steele>Hune Snith Burke Lamb Gibbon Hazlitt> Pater and RuskinBoring pseuds nobody reads for fun
>>25498213>implying that Addison and Steele are pseuds
What’s a stylist? What a style really?Do you need to do something weird and experimental? Do you just need to exhibit supreme mastery of the English language? Or do you need to bend the rules of grammar? Does it need to be pretty? Can you even learn to become a prose stylist?
>>25498276You know it when you see it.
>>25498213>Austen and Lyttonchicklit and manchildcore, resp.Addison, Hazlitt, Ruskin and Pater are a lot greater
>no jefferies
>>25498378Despite the fact he obviously doesn’t.
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I sometimes wonder how much fun it must have been to be living in London during that high point of the English Enlightenment. You had Addison, Steele, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon all kicking around. For poetry there was Pope and then Swift. For music, Handel was actively composing his greatest works.The reign of George III and then the Regency. It seems to have been one of the high, bright times and places in all of human history.
>>25498462That's his problem
>>25498523You would not have been rich enough to enjoy it.
>>25498239The Mark Twains of British literature.>>25498449>Ad homI accept your concession.
>>25498529Johnson wasn't particularly wealthy, he was just talented and productive."No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
>>25498037Did we really fail to inherit prose from the ancient Egyptians?
DFW
>>25498529>>25498680Lower class people had it pretty well off in that era.Even working class people like Akenside, Thomson, Beattie, Leyden, and Hogg could become recognised poets and rub shoulders with the higher classes
>>25498645Addison and Steele would own Mark Twain in their commitment to an office. They defend solemn propriety and Providence, and would have nothing to do with Twain's dilettante skepticism.
>>25498037Don't forget Hooker, Andrewes, Bacon, Donne, Burton, Browne, Milton and Taylor. The 17th century was the peak of English prose.
>>25498449You have not read a single Austen novel.
>>25498449>newfag misunderstands manchildcoremanchildcore novels are written after the year 1900 (and virtually always after the 1950s)manchildren are not reading victorian literature especially not lytton
A-HEM.
