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I would say 1984----I guess because it is pertinent to today's times to a tee. Trump and his minions are living examples of people who use Newspeak/Doublethink.

If Trump would have won a second term, we might have had telescreens in every home.

I would pick T.S. Eliot because he was merely a conservative. Pound was an outright fascist.


Ben Jonson, or Philip Marlowe?

Beowulf. I like medieval epics better than polemical works.

Chaucer, or Dante?

Dante and Marlowe ^^ (You mean Christopher, right?)

George Eliot or George Sand?

I think there's a case for the view that there's a fair bit of that on the left as well, eg the advocates of cancel culture who describe themselves as 'liberals', while somehow keeping a straight face....

Marlowe


Sorry, I've fallen a bit behind....

Yeah. I agree with Deep about Wokeism. Excesses within the Right and Left are equally egregious.

Of course, Christopher Marlowe!

Baroque, or Rococo?

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Baroque

George Eliot or George Sand?

Eliot. I’ve heard of Sand, but never read her.

Wordsworth, or Blake?

Wordsworth

Defoe or Richardson?

I used to know the difference between those, before I became an internet junkie as opposed to a proper Culture Vulture. 'Baroque' is a much nicer word than 'Rococo', which has overtones of the circus....

Blake

Rembrandt or Rubens?

Edit: sorry, too late again....

Rubens

Thoreau or Keats?

Thoroughly Thoreau!

Koala Bears, or Polar Bears?

Keats -- I dislike Thoreau

Poley Bears

Defoe or Richardson?

(Isabella): I'd like to say Keats, but I ploughed through his 'Endymion' in the summer of 1981, and that probably inoculated me for life against him.

(kraftiekortie): Polar Bears

John Wyndham or Fred Hoyle?

Defoe, in a way. Though I derive more pleasure from Richardson. I feel like Defoe sought to expand minds more.

Clarissa, or The Color Purple?

Hoyle
Not a huge fan of Defoe

Clarissa, but I do like CP.


Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Pamela?

Pamela. That was my ex-fiancee's name. And it was supposedly "the first English novel."

Middlemarch, or Bleak House? These Victorian works had layers of complexity!