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The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time
For those of you wondering ‘who decides these things?’, the list below is from the book The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2001), written by Daniel S. Burt.
Put an [ X ] against the authors you’ve read, total them up, and resolve to read more (if you can).
1 William Shakespeare [X]
2 Dante Alighieri [X]
3 Homer [X]
4 Leo Tolstoy [X]
5 Geoffrey Chaucer [X]
6 Charles Dickens [X]
7 James Joyce [X]
8 John Milton [X]
9 Virgil [X]
10 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [X]
11 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [X]
12 Murasaki Shikibu [ ]
13 Sophocles [X]
14 William Faulkner [X]
15 Feodor Dostoevsky [X]
16 T.S. Eliot [X]
17 Marcel Proust [X]
18 Jane Austen [X]
19 George Eliot [X]
20 William Butler Yeats [X]
21 Alexander Pushkin [ ]
22 Euripides [X]
23 John Donne [X]
24 Herman Melville [X]
25 John Keats [X]
26 Ovid [X]
27 Tu Fu [ ]
28 William Blake [X]
29 Aeschylus [X]
30 Gustave Flaubert [X]
31 Franz Kafka [X]
32 Moliere [X]
33 William Wordsworth [X]
34 Aristophanes [X]
35 Thomas Mann [X]
36 Henrik Ibsen [X]
37 Anton Chekhov [X]
38 Henry James [X]
39 Vladimir Nabokov [X]
40 Walt Whitman [X]
41 Honore de Balzac [X]
42 Jonathan Swift [X]
43 Stendhal [ ]
44 Thomas Hardy [X]
45 George Bernard Shaw [X]
46 Ernest Hemingway [X]
47 D. H. Lawrence [X]
48 Charles Baudelaire [X]
49 Samuel Beckett [X]
50 Virginia Woolf [X]
51 Alexander Pope [ ]
52 Francois Rabelais [ ]
53 Francesco Petrarch [ ]
54 Emily Dickinson [X]
55 Edgar Allan Poe [X]
56 Henry Fielding [ ]
57 Joseph Conrad [X]
58 Robert Browning [X]
59 Albert Camus [X]
60 Charlotte Bronte [X]
61 Emily Bronte [X]
62 Jean Racine [ ]
63 Mark Twain [X]
64 August Strindberg [ ]
65 Emile Zola [X]
66 Jorge Luis Borges [X]
67 Cao Xueqin [ ]
68 Giovanni Boccaccio [ ]
69 Voltaire [X]
70 Laurence Sterne [ ]
71 William Makepeace Thackeray [X]
72 Percy Bysshe Shelley [X]
73 Eugene O'Neill [X]
74 Wallace Stevens [ ]
75 Lord Byron (George Gordon) [X]
76 Gabriel Garcia Marquez [X]
77 Walter Scott [X]
78 Pablo Neruda [X]
79 Robert Musil [ ]
80 Alfred Lord Tennyson [X]
81 Flannery O'Connor [X]
82 Catullus [ ]
83 Federico Garcia Lorca [X]
84 Nathaniel Hawthorne [X]
85 Theodore Dreiser [X]
86 Ralph Ellison [X]
87 Anthony Trollope [ ]
88 F. Scott Fitzgerald [X]
89 Victor Hugo [X]
90 Rabindranath Tagore [ ]
91 Daniel Defoe [X]
92 Gunter Grass [X]
93 Lu Xun [ ]
94 E. M. Forster [X]
95 Isaac Bashevis Singer [X]
96 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro [ ]
97 Richard Wright [ ]
98 Gertrude Stein [X]
99 Zeami Motokiyo [ ]
100 Oscar Wilde [X]
ETA: Total read: 80. Ok, I believe I have officially met my theatre geek quotient.
book_memes:The Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time
For those of you wondering ‘who decides these things?’, the list below is from the book The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2001), written by Daniel S. Burt.
Put an [ X ] against the authors you’ve read, total them up, and resolve to read more (if you can).
1 William Shakespeare [X]
2 Dante Alighieri [X]
3 Homer [X]
4 Leo Tolstoy [X]
5 Geoffrey Chaucer [X]
6 Charles Dickens [X]
7 James Joyce [X]
8 John Milton [X]
9 Virgil [X]
10 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [X]
11 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [X]
12 Murasaki Shikibu [ ]
13 Sophocles [X]
14 William Faulkner [X]
15 Feodor Dostoevsky [X]
16 T.S. Eliot [X]
17 Marcel Proust [X]
18 Jane Austen [X]
19 George Eliot [X]
20 William Butler Yeats [X]
21 Alexander Pushkin [ ]
22 Euripides [X]
23 John Donne [X]
24 Herman Melville [X]
25 John Keats [X]
26 Ovid [X]
27 Tu Fu [ ]
28 William Blake [X]
29 Aeschylus [X]
30 Gustave Flaubert [X]
31 Franz Kafka [X]
32 Moliere [X]
33 William Wordsworth [X]
34 Aristophanes [X]
35 Thomas Mann [X]
36 Henrik Ibsen [X]
37 Anton Chekhov [X]
38 Henry James [X]
39 Vladimir Nabokov [X]
40 Walt Whitman [X]
41 Honore de Balzac [X]
42 Jonathan Swift [X]
43 Stendhal [ ]
44 Thomas Hardy [X]
45 George Bernard Shaw [X]
46 Ernest Hemingway [X]
47 D. H. Lawrence [X]
48 Charles Baudelaire [X]
49 Samuel Beckett [X]
50 Virginia Woolf [X]
51 Alexander Pope [ ]
52 Francois Rabelais [ ]
53 Francesco Petrarch [ ]
54 Emily Dickinson [X]
55 Edgar Allan Poe [X]
56 Henry Fielding [ ]
57 Joseph Conrad [X]
58 Robert Browning [X]
59 Albert Camus [X]
60 Charlotte Bronte [X]
61 Emily Bronte [X]
62 Jean Racine [ ]
63 Mark Twain [X]
64 August Strindberg [ ]
65 Emile Zola [X]
66 Jorge Luis Borges [X]
67 Cao Xueqin [ ]
68 Giovanni Boccaccio [ ]
69 Voltaire [X]
70 Laurence Sterne [ ]
71 William Makepeace Thackeray [X]
72 Percy Bysshe Shelley [X]
73 Eugene O'Neill [X]
74 Wallace Stevens [ ]
75 Lord Byron (George Gordon) [X]
76 Gabriel Garcia Marquez [X]
77 Walter Scott [X]
78 Pablo Neruda [X]
79 Robert Musil [ ]
80 Alfred Lord Tennyson [X]
81 Flannery O'Connor [X]
82 Catullus [ ]
83 Federico Garcia Lorca [X]
84 Nathaniel Hawthorne [X]
85 Theodore Dreiser [X]
86 Ralph Ellison [X]
87 Anthony Trollope [ ]
88 F. Scott Fitzgerald [X]
89 Victor Hugo [X]
90 Rabindranath Tagore [ ]
91 Daniel Defoe [X]
92 Gunter Grass [X]
93 Lu Xun [ ]
94 E. M. Forster [X]
95 Isaac Bashevis Singer [X]
96 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro [ ]
97 Richard Wright [ ]
98 Gertrude Stein [X]
99 Zeami Motokiyo [ ]
100 Oscar Wilde [X]
ETA: Total read: 80. Ok, I believe I have officially met my theatre geek quotient.
