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h.g.Whiz
12th February 2009, 10:12 PM
Will we ever see a modern day Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, or Hawthorne?
The Central Scrutinizer
12th February 2009, 10:24 PM
Anne Rice?

:duck:
tomwaits
12th February 2009, 10:39 PM
More importantly, will we ever see a modern day Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?
quixotecoyote
12th February 2009, 10:52 PM
Or a Moe, Larrry, and Curly?
The Central Scrutinizer
12th February 2009, 10:59 PM
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe?
quixotecoyote
12th February 2009, 11:06 PM
Winken, Blinken, and Nod?
Damien Evans
13th February 2009, 06:21 AM
More importantly, will we ever see a modern day Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?

Damn I hope so.

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imjohn
13th February 2009, 04:56 PM
I imagine they were writing Lost and The Wire.
Foolmewunz
13th February 2009, 09:24 PM
Did they know in the 20s and 30s that Fitzgerald, Hemmingway and Faulkner were going to become Fitzgerald, Hemmingway and Faulkner. e.g. household words synonymous with the lit of the era.

History will tell whether the body of work of a Pynchon or a Mailer or a Rushdie will raise them into that pantheon that you mention (a couple of whom I have a few quoibles on).

If the OP is bemoaning the loss of The Great Writers, then I say, "Nonsense!"
tomwaits
13th February 2009, 09:29 PM
Umberto Eco, anyone?
Foolmewunz
13th February 2009, 09:53 PM
Never mind.

I was responding to a now deleted post of a rather reprehensible nature.

ETA: Ummm, I was in the wrong thread... too many minimized windows, sorry. I'm off to tilt lances.
h.g.Whiz
13th February 2009, 09:59 PM
Emerson criticized Lincoln for being more concerned in strengthening the union than stopping slavery.
The Central Scrutinizer
13th February 2009, 10:13 PM
Emerson criticized Lincoln for being more concerned in strengthening the union than stopping slavery.

Did Lake and/or Powell have an opinion?
Foolmewunz
13th February 2009, 10:18 PM
Did Lake and/or Powell have an opinion?

Yes. Both of them felt that Emerson's politics had nothing to do with his talents. And Lake actually told me to ignore H.G.Whiz, but I figured that'd be too mean, so I'm ignoring Lake. That'll teach him!
Tumblehome
14th February 2009, 08:58 PM
Will we ever see a modern day Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, or Hawthorne?


According to Philip Roth (and I agree with him), we already have in John Updike (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike) (R.I.P.)

The novelist Philip Roth, considered one of Updike's literary rivals, wrote that "John Updike is our time’s greatest man of letters, as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short story writer. He is and always will be no less a national treasure than his 19th-century precursor, Nathaniel Hawthorne."

ETA: As others have said here, I think we just don't realize it yet.
Piero
15th February 2009, 02:46 PM
Umberto Eco, anyone?

Yes, me!