Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-24083265-20150327172041/@comment-25598352-20150327223630

Milton wrote Paradise Lost and the Faerie Queen and is usually viewed as one of the greatest authors of all time along with Shakespeare and Joyce. Miguel Cervantes wrote Don Quixote and had a rather interesting personal life. Viktor Hugo wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Joyce was Irish (although you could easily have him replace Milton as the general UK epic writer). He wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and The Dubliners and is generally viewed as rounding out the top three English authors. They basically wrote the most famous epic tales of every major European country. Maybe you could all Kafka (Germany) and either Tom Clancy or Andrew Hussie for America to round it out to nine because nine muses. Neither of the latter two are on par with the other eight, but they'd kind of be a joke character to round it out.