can you please think of the writer with the most brilliant/beautiful language?

Question

thank you

Answer 1

Gotta go with Shakespeare.

Answer 2

The answers so far are mostly authors that have written interesting things, but most of them haven't really written beautifully (the exception being Flaubert, who did indeed write beautiful prose). Some of them (Dan Brown!?) actually write prose that is aggressively, terribly bad, although no doubt their books are popular.

Some poets and authors who have written at one time or another with truly beautiful language (in no particular order):
John Donne
Thomas Hardy
James Joyce
Ezra Pound
Federico García Lorca
Gay Talese
Michael Herr
Hart Crane
Paul Valéry
Cormac McCarthy
Thomas Pynchon

Some of those are novelists, others are journalists, others are poets, but they all use language brilliantly.

Answer 3

I consider George Bernard Shaw one of the the greatest writers. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1925 The musical, My Fair Lady, was based on his play Pygmalion which he wrote in 1912.

He is one of the wittiest and most interesting authors I have ever read.

Answer 4

Dan Brown, Main Reed, Alexander Dumas.

Answer 5

Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 6

Here are a few in the running:

English Novel - Lawrence Durrel (Alexandria Quartet)
- James Joyce

Eng Poetry - Shakespeare (Sonnets)
- W.B.Yeats
- Dylan Thomas

Answer 7

I would say Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary, Salammbo)
He cared so much about the beauty of the sentences he was writing that he shouted them as loud as he could to check if they sounded good
I don't know what his neighbors thought about it

Answer 8

Kurt Vonnegut jr has possibly the the most brillant language ive ever heard. he has a satrical voice, and a fantastic, fresh view. check him out if you havent already

Answer 9

As for brilliant, Dr. Seuss was very original.

Answer 10

Nora Roberts. Very fluid.