Who is the greatest writer in human history?

Bill Shakespeare.... or Francis Bacon whoever he was.

I think people who speak a particular language are generally going to favor their own top writer(s). For Germans it's probably Goethe, for the French it's probably either Victor Hugo or Balzac. Russians it's almost certainly Dostoevsky. For us English speakers it's without a doubt Shakespeare. For Italian it's Dante. Among the ancients you have Virgil, Homer, Ovid and maybe Aeschylus.

So, for me, as an English speaker, it's definitely Shakespeare. No other writer in the tongue even comes close for facility with language. The only thing I've heard that has the same sort of linguistic music are some very good translations of Ovid. When one considers how many phrases we use today in everyday speech that originated with Shakespeare, one starts to realize we are all now speaking a language that he essentially helped form. The way we speak informs how we think, and his sayings and aphorisms are so a part of our daily speech and thought that I think it's safe to say he's as influential as any writer or thinker in history, at least upon the English speaking mind.

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Last Edited by JimBomB on 03/23/2012 07:40 PM

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