Meme!

[ratherastory]

Nicked from bellatemple and roque_clasique.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed in order of relevance to you.

Like bellatemple and roque_clasique, I include musicians.

1- Paul Verlaine

2- Charles Dickens

3- Jack London

4- Bob Dylan

5- Émile Nelligan

6- Victor Hugo

7- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8- The Beatles

9- Emily Dickinson

10- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11- Hergé

12- Guy de Maupassant

13- Edgar Allan Poe

14- Bram Stoker

15- Bernard Cornwell


Okay, there are, like, a bazillion others I could name. *sigh* 15 seems awfully limiting.

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I wrote my honours thesis on him and Wordsworth, actually. It was a horrifically pretentious thing on the Other and the use of liminal space in the Lyrical Ballads. /o\

Coleridge is a gateway drug to the Romantics. Fair warning. Before you know it you'll be enjoying Keats and Shelley. ;)

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Hee! I wrote my thesis on Octavia Butler and Samuel Delaney, and the reading of race onto black sci-fi novels -- equally pretentious! But funnnnnn.

I already do enjoy Keats and Shelley, LOL! Just somehow missed Coleridge. And Wordsworth, come to think of it -- aside from "I wandered lonely as a cloud," of course.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Look at you, all up in the Romantics! Next thing you know you'll be telling me you love William Blake.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

WHO DOESN'T LOVE WILLIAM BLAKE?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW!

[velvetine01.livejournal.com]

It was a horrifically pretentious thing on the Other and the use of liminal space in the Lyrical Ballads
Ahah, my prof would LOVE you.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! What's your prof's name? Anyone I would know?

[velvetine01.livejournal.com]

Prof Tom Mole. IDK if you'd know him.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Doesn't ring a bell, no. Alas.