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"America's Homer" isn't someone you pick by committee. The fact that you have to debate means that this person does not exist. The American literary tradition i
by paxys 3mo ago
"America's Homer" isn't someone you pick by committee. The fact that you have to debate means that this person does not exist. The American literary tradition is far too new for someone to have the kind of impact as others on the list. We are talking about people who, through their writing, created and evolved language itself.
No single author has defined how America speaks and writes the way Dante did for Italian or Cervantes for Spanish. And perhaps no one ever will.
- ofalkaed 3mo agoNeither TFA or this thread are legally binding, there are no consequences other than some fun and maybe finding something new to read.
- xenocratus 3mo agoI found paxys' comment fun, so you're right!
- Erem 3mo agoOr Shakespeare for English
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- Tangurena2 3mo ago> No single author has defined how America speaks and writes the way Dante did for Italian No English language version of the Bible - prior to the King James Version - contained descriptions of Hell. At best, modern American conceptions/beliefs about Hell is fan-fiction based on Dante's Inferno.
- chuckadams 3mo agoGehenna was well-known in the oral tradition of Jews and Muslims long before the 1600s. The whole "lake of fire" thing appears in the Book of Revelation, is very unambiguously referred to as such in the Greek text, and that's what most conceptions of hell come from. Dante's Inferno is literally frozen over at the bottom, which is not the standard Biblical version of Hell most people think of.
- FuriouslyAdrift 3mo agoSheol got turned into Hades, then Christianity mashed it together with Gehenna to create "Hell".