What is your favorite period in literature?

[Patroclus]

My favorite period of literature would have to be either the Modern, or American Industrial period. What about all of you?

[Captain Ochre]

I like the one that they use to end sentences with the best, by far.

[Bill the Cat]

To quote the famous song,....

Right Here, Right now
watching the World wake up from History!!!

No, seriously, I like the classic literature of Ralph Waldo Emerson's period

[Bill the Cat]

Also did a term paper on Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and the impact on Ghandi and M L King Jr

[Solly]

19th century general, plus 1960s-80s SF

[Patroclus]

Solly, do prefer the romantics of the early 19th century, or the Victorians of the later 19th century?

[Solly]

Difficult to say. Esp as it is not nec. English lit I mean; f'rinst, I like Dostoyevsky & Dickens (though it's been a while since I read Dickens). I liked Nietzsche (who isn't quite literature I know), and religious writings of the period. I don't go a bunch on the romantics if you mean the likes of Shelley, Keats, wordsworth etc, preferring more "realistic" stuff.

[Arminian]

The one with the most pictures.

[Revolg]

Right when Christian Humanism started taking place in the High Middle Ages. Some of the best Church Fathers started showing up then like Erasamus, Calvin, and Zwingli. Also Zwingli was much more radical and fanactical.

Eric

[tiedyekitty]

I don't know what the periods of literature are labled as, but I prefer books from the 1940's. I just got through with Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men".

[Woman]

Bill the Cat:
I like the classic literature of Ralph Waldo Emerson's period

Our age is retrospective. Why should we not also enjoy its original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ... why should we grope among the bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines today also. There is more flax and wool in the fields. Let us demand our own works and law and worship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I agree and especailly enjoy the Transcendentalists and Romantics of the late 1700's and early to mid 1800's

Blake was a little earlier...I think?? But ya gotta love a guy who can write like this:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
-William Blake-

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least" - Henry David Thoreau

For curling up with a good tale though, Steinbeck and on can't be beat. (Oh, maybe Jane Austin)

I just re-read Grapes of Wrath and Winter of Our Discontent. Just dang good stories!

Modern novelist favorites are Wally Lamb, John Irving, Amy Tan, Alice Walker...so many

And yeah I also enjoy the "fast food" of literature too: Michael Crichton, Scott Turow, John Grisham...

What the heck am I doing online?




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[The Curtmudgeon]

Hard to say, since I read so eclecticly. If we're talking Literature-with-a-capital-L, then I suppose it's a broad period from the Elizabethans through the Cavaliers--but then one of my favourite poets is Robert Browning, which is quite later. But for general fiction, I'm more a late 19th century through early 20th century fan (1900 +/- 50 years)--but then my favourite mystery writer is Robert Goddard, currently writing.

Of course, I've never claimed that consistency was one of my vices. :hrm:

The (I do lose track of them all) Curtmudgeon

[FirstSunday33ad]

:read:

Post world war one American and nothing after 1970.

[NeilUnreal]

All the 19th century.

-Neil