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⌈ Secret Post #3182 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

We did The Great Gatsby in school in the UK. It was strange reading a book so recently written and studying it as a set text, compared to the other classics we studied. But I suppose America didn't exist in its midern form at the same time all those other books and plays were being written. Obvious, now I think about it. Gatsby was interesting but it did feel more pop-culture and out of place.

[(Anonymous)]

The USA is a very young country. Obviously a lot of their classics will be far more recent than, say, British classics. If you think about it, Shakespeare's works were written before the USA even existed. When Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales the western world didn't even know America existed yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Generally the oldest American things you would encounter in high school English would be 19th century - Hawthorne and Poe probably being the earliest, so that's dating back to the 1840s and 1850s.

So, yeah, substantially more modern, but that's kind of inevitable when the country was still so young.

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Most American schools will also do something with Shakespeare. My little brother had to read Beowulf for his high school English class. Odyssey/Iliad are also common, I did that in my school.

So what do you mean by "classics"? Which did you study in school? There's no national curriculum in the US but The Great Gatsby is still one of the "younger" common required books. Though I'm not sure why it doesn't seem like a classic to you, plenty of 20th century European books are considered classics, too.

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Yeah, I remember taking a world civilization class in high school where we read stuff similar to the Odyssey and Illad. I remember reading a lot of epics and ancient poetry from some of the fairly early centuries, and that stuff was often mixed in with 19th/20th century stuff as well.

I liked that class.