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Poll Question: Who’s the most "prog" of these classic writers?
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Points: 362 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 17:44

hehehe.. what about T.S. Eliot? Reaaaaally prog!!

Since he's not here, I'll vote for James Joyce.

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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 16:30

Originally posted by Manunkind Manunkind wrote:

Well, you can't have included everyone. Some other suggestions of mine would be Borges, Beckett and Nabokov. 

I could have mentioned also Giovanni Verga, Ludovico Ariosto, Joseph Conrad and Samuel Coleridge!



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Points: 2373 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 16:25
Well, you can't have included everyone. Some other suggestions of mine would be Borges, Beckett and Nabokov. 
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Originally posted by Manunkind Manunkind wrote:

How could you have forgotten Cervantes? He and Rabelais spearheaded the novel.

BTW I was sure I would have forgotten someone!!: that's the proof! (there will be many others, I presume!!): anyway you can always post the name of the forgotten writer!!!
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Points: 2373 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 16:15

How could you have forgotten Cervantes? He and Rabelais spearheaded the novel.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 16:08

I think three writers are in pole position: Dante Alighieri, Tolkien and Poe



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