What is neat about this project is that I’m actually writing a book under my own name. I think I’ll wait a bit before I tell you more about it. But in the meantime, here’s something for you all to guess at:
What did all these writers have in common (other than the fact that they were writers, homo sapiens, etc)?
Dante, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edward Gibbon, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Keats, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstory, John Drinkwater, and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Give it your best shot.
Hmmm.. None of them were on Twitter? 🙂
I gave it an honest try. I had a few ideas that covered about half of them, but that is a pretty diverse group.
I’m going to just have to take a risk and give you my best guess: the all wrote under pseudonyms??
Individual civil war using the weapons of wit and satire between Augustan/Empiricism, Enlightenment/Rationalism, and Romanticism.
Sense, Sensibility, and Savage Sensuality
Childless? Unmarried?
Looks like they all lost a parent in childhood.
I was going to say that they allowed imagination to inform their work to a very great degree, rather than a more modern brute realism. That’s true for almost all of them, but I’m not familiar enough with some of them to be sure, and I don’t think it applies to Gibbon who is best known for a pretty straight history (at least in its intent.)
Paul’s probably right.
I was going to say they were all born west of the Urals and north of the 30th parallel, but Tolkien was born in South Africa, and besides, it’s probably too obvious that they were all of European extraction.
They all hated Shakespeare.
I’m pretty sure Dante didn’t.
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