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2 Post author: PhilGoetz 14 November 2013 02:26AM

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Comment author: gjm 14 November 2013 05:19:55PM 0 points [-]

you simply can't suggest another english-speaking writer was better than Shakespeare in polite company.

I think we must move in different circles. I don't think anyone I know would be particularly offended if I claimed to prefer, say, Milton to Shakespeare or to think M. objectively better than S.