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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:37 AM
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Ireland kicks everybody's literary asses
They really do
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:49 AM
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1. Remove the Irish authors from any English literature course...
You've got Shakespeare, Milton (ugh) & a few others....
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 12:36 PM
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5. Actually, it's more like...
remove the Irish authors, and you're missing Jonathan Swift, Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Behan and Oliver Goldsmith, but you're left with Shakespeare, Marlowe, Chaucer, Blake, Byron, Pope, John Webster, the Brontës, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Robert and Elizabeth Barret Browning, Percy and Mary Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson...you get the idea.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:56 AM
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2. a history of unreadable, dense prose
does not a literary giant make.

plus, I'd have to throw in England, to be fair: Shakespeare, Milton, Browning, Dickens, Chaucer, Austen, Byron...shall I continue?
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 12:02 PM
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3. Joyce pwns.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 12:27 PM
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4. Oh, sure, you have a good century and suddenly you think you're
the cradle of civilization.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 12:40 PM
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6. I hope for your sake that you never go to Russia, France or Germany
Edited on Thu Mar-10-05 12:41 PM by JVS
Actually, the French and Germans might not mind your attitude too much, but the Russians would be enraged at your statement and probably kill you
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 12:58 PM
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7. As a man who lives dangerously, I think I will try to do just that
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