[grey_whiskers]

Writing doesn’t get much better than Chesterton.

Only Hilaire Belloc, P.G. Wodehouse, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, Albert Einstein, and Dick Feynman are in the same league.

In my judgment and experience...

Well, OK. Mark Steyn, Iowahawk, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Paul Rahe.

And Shakespeare.

A baker's dozen.

Cheers!

[Pelham]

I’ll second you on Hilaire Belloc, P.G. Wodehouse, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis. I did read one book of Einstein’s but wasn’t overly impressed with his writing style, and while I know of the physicist Feynman I haven’t read anything by him.

Shakespeare of course is in a league of his own. Shakespeare and the King James Bible are the sources of the modern English language, at least when there is a pithy or poetic phrase in it. We all quote them both all the time, mostly without having the slightest idea that we are doing it.