Greatest Satirist (1 Viewer)

[Empyrean444]

Who do you think is the greatest satirist?

My vote would have to go to Jonathan Swift (for Gulliver's Travels, a satirical elegy, the beast's confession etc), but I would give a second to Alexander Pope for the Dunciad.

 

[jb_nc]

george w bush

 

[Riet]

I second Swift, <3 A modest proposal.

 

[jennieTalia]

I second Swift, <3 A modest proposal.

I third that.

 

[Funky Monk]

pfft Joseph Heller.

 

[Ice Goddess]

Mayb not GREATEST. but Jane Austen cerainly wrote some ith some very withering satire in some of her books (a lot compared to other ppl in her era anyways).

 

[jet]

pfft Joseph Heller.

Exactly.

 

[Kwayera]

Abbott with his Flatland.

 

[Iron]

Evelyn Waugh, no question

 

[Cookie182]

Ali g

 

[Hornby]

Stephen Colbert

 

[M.T.T.]

Austen.

Northanger Abbey is brilliant satire. Takes a couple of reads to realize, but the social satire, the literary satire, it's so well done and despite the time differences, it's really quite funny.