Dickens

[luka]

Did you read Beowulf

Hes never even read shakespeare! Or dickens for that matter!

 

[luka]

Tbf english is his

 

[luka]

2nd language

 

[jenks]

It seems obvious to me at this point (drunk on Dickens) that he's the greatest English writer after Shakespeare, and NO I HAVEN'T READ 99% OF THE CANON

‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British literary giant, the Bard

www.theguardian.com

 

[woops]

number of London public houses named after Shakespeare: 7
number of London public houses named after Dickens: 3
that settles that one

 

[version]

a few years ago i had a go at writing something about GE - i'll attach it here (there are plot spoilers) it's not my final word on it and i always meant to go back and redraft it but here it is, be kind.

Haven't read the book, but enjoyed this.

 

[Corpsey]

‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British literary giant, the Bard

www.theguardian.com

I enjoyed how this bloke praised Dickens but his attempts at doing Shakespeare down are pathetic

One Shakespearean motto lodged in Dickens’s mind, almost as an irritant. This was Prospero’s boast in The Tempest about his “so potent art”, by which he means the magic that whips up storms and even resurrects the dead. Dickens was also a magician, who performed conjuring tricks at parties and thought of his poetic metaphors as verbal spells; he frequently quoted Prospero’s phrase, as if quietly asking whose art was the more potent. At the end of the play, Shakespeare’s magus wearily discards his book of charms and resigns himself to impotent mortality: he cannot match the creative energy of Dickens, who said that when writing he often felt that his head was about to explode “like a fired shell”.

I suppose he's being tongue in cheek though