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Who is your favorite early American writer
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18th, 19th, or very early 20th century.

Tell me why you like that writer and leave a quote from one of their books, sketches, or poems.


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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Jack London hands down. I have a WICKED old book somewhere of short stories by him. A lot of them struck me in the best ways... (I think we was late 18th, or early 19th?)

"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time." - Call of the Wild.

I really need to find that book. There is a quote in one of his short stories a read a few years back that I absolutly love way more than that one...

If I find it, I'll come back to this thread, and type it out. :lol:


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: DarkElf]
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DarkElf said:
Jack London hands down. I have a WICKED old book somewhere of short stories by him. A lot of them struck me in the best ways... (I think we was late 18th, or early 19th?)

"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time." - Call of the Wild.

I really need to find that book. There is a quote in one of his short stories a read a few years back that I absolutly love way more than that one...

If I find it, I'll come back to this thread, and type it out. :lol:



Cool, please do.


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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I have a busy day tomorrow, but I'll try to look for it in the morning. And as I'm sitting in the doctors office, I'll thumb through it.

Who is yours anyway XUL?


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: DarkElf]
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Hemingway all the way


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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Shirley Jackson or H.P. Lovecraft

Maybe Larry McMurtry

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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: DarkElf]
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Jack London is a good call.  I think he wrote in the early 20th century, possibly late 19th.  I'm a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The Great Gatsby is the obvious pick... Tender is the Night is also really goood, though Fitzgerlad wrote in the 1920s and 30s I believe so he might be a little more modern than what you're asking.  As far as really old writers, Edgar Allen Poe is solid, but I gotta be in the right mood for his work.

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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: DarkElf]
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DarkElf said:
I have a busy day tomorrow, but I'll try to look for it in the morning. And as I'm sitting in the doctors office, I'll thumb through it.

Who is yours anyway XUL?



My favorite author is currently contested.

For the longest time it was Sarah Orne Jewett. I read this line when I was in college and it changed my life forever. It made me feel as if I was invincible.

Quote:
The ease that belongs to simplicity is charming enough to make up for whatever a simple life may lack, and the gifts of peace are not for those who live in the thick of battle.


The line comes from her book "The Country of the Pointed Firs", which is simply about a fictional fishing town in Maine. The book lacks any real premise or plot, but rather Jewett focuses on romanticism, diction, rhetoric, and syntax to almost paint a picture in your mind. The style is called "local color writing" or "regionalism".

I am currently halfway through Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street". The first page of the book won me over.

Quote:
A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheatlands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom. She lifted her arms, she leaned back against the wind, her skirt dipped and flared, a lock blew wild. A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth.



Sinclair is also considered to be part of the local color movement.


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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Gilgamesh18 said:
Hemingway all the way



Nice choice.

I loved his book "The Sun Also Rises". Did you read it?

What a quirky story with a strange ending, no?


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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XUL said:
Gilgamesh18 said:
Hemingway all the way



Nice choice.

I loved his book "The Sun Also Rises". Did you read it?

What a quirky story with a strange ending, no?


I have not read it sadly il have to check it out though, right now im reading some Kafka that guy is twisted!


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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based on post count id have to say prisoner 1


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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Edgar Allan Poe.
he was dark and macabre.

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
― Edgar Allan Poe


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: California]
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Theodore Dreiser
“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.”
        ―  Sister Carrie

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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: arago]
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Interesting replies. I will have to look into some of these writers.:thumbup:


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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thomas james


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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Mart Twain.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
His short stories are the best.

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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: SoreSpore]
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mark twain or edgar allan poe. Tell tale heart is one of my favorites pieces of literature.


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

need to read Mark Twain, since he's such a huge inspiration for another one of my favorite writers, Kurt Vonnegut.


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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: XUL]
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Alright Mr. Xul. I found this dusty old book, and found the short story, and the passage... it's very long, and I hate that I have to type this up.. :lol: Laziness is taking over me today. But here it is..

From "Best short stories of Jack London"  - 'The law of life'

"He did not complain. It was the way of life, and it was just. He had been born close to the earth, close to the earth had he lived, and the law thereof was not new to him. It was the law of all flesh. Nature was not kindly to the flesh. She had no concern for that concrete thing call the individual. Her interest lay in the species, the race. This was the deepest abstraction old Koskoosh's barbaric mind was capable of, but he grasped it firmly. He saw it exemplified in all life. The rise of the sap, the bursting greenness of the willow bud, and the fall of the yellow leaf-in this alone was told the whole history. But one task did nature set the individual. Did he not perform it, he died. Did he perform it, it was all the same, he died. Nature did not care; there were plenty who were obedient, and it was only the obedience in this matter, not the obedient, which lived and lived always."

That shit made me think for years. It still pulls at me in some crazy heady ways.



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Re: Who is your favorite early American writer [Re: DarkElf]
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Darkelf,

Thanks for sharing man. I enjoyed that.

Those stories sound very interesting and very philosophical.


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