What is a Classic vs. Modern Classic

A Classic by any other name would smell as sweet.... or would it?
What do you call a classic? Leave me a comment!

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[chelsealovingbooks]

I loved your discussion here and your descriptions. It felt like you were defining things that I had only every really thought about in concepts or feelings but never took the time to put into clear ideas and words. I found what you said reflected my own views in a clear way and may refer back to what you say here if ever I am trying to explain my own view on the topic.

[Khan-nsfh]

Very nicely differntiated ....keep making more videos ...❤️ Love from Kashmir India...

[jeremywvarietyofviewpoints]

Some early literature wasn't God-centred, sometimes not even gods-centred. Also modern literature tends to exclude the fantastic and supernatural more.

[amypease]

Great discussion! It already got me thinking more deeply about things I want to incorporate into my book

[seriela]

Weeeellll... That you for the different time periods for classical literature. But I'm trying to decide whether Don Quixote had a happy or hopeful ending. I will be on the lookout when I reread it next month.

[Alearneducation]

Your way of expression is quite impressive but it will be more helpful to us, if you can provide link of some related stuff in your description 😊

[seanbeltanno]

so....would a novel like Pride and Prejudice be considered a classic? A modern classic? Or not even classic at all?

[WildeBookGarden]

Great discussion! I'll have to give some thought as to what my cut-off for a modern classic is. I agree with a lot of your theme analysis, but practically I feel like I tend to consider modern classics to start much later, around the 1940's or 50's. Although that may be because I haven't read nearly as many modern classics as classics!

[SunriseFireberry]

1700-1800 for Wordsworth, in part. As for Austen & Shelley, umm no. 1800s.

I feel that the modern era began in Spring 1914, though some would say 1920, kickstarted not by Joyce but by TS Eliot & Ezra Pound.
As a supplimental to what u said re 1910ff, it sounds as though what authors as Sayers, G. Greene, F. O'Connor, Tolkien, CS Lewis were very much writing vs the general trend. I don't read most general adult fic 1910-ish to the present, though some was proscribed. Very often it's classics, fantasy, or non-fic for me.