Normblog's Posterity Poll

1. Poet
2. Playwright
3. Novelist
4. Composer
5. Jazz musician
6. Rock or pop star/group
7. Country music ditto
8. Movie director
9. Painter
10. Photographer
11. Sculptor
12. Architect

Now, you can have some transferable votes within this poll. SO - if you wish to nominate more than one poet (for example), you can, BUT you have to sacrifice your vote in another category. And you must vote in 9 categories as a minimum.

Norm's choices are:
1. Poet: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot
2. Playwright: Shakespeare
3. Novelist: Jane Austen
4. Composer: Beethoven
5. Jazz musician: Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk
6. Rock or pop star/group: Bob Dylan
7. Country music ditto: Emmylou Harris
8. Movie director: Hitchcock, Peckinpah
9. Painter: Rembrandt
10. Photographer: transfer to 1
11. Sculptor: transfer to 5
12. Architect: transfer to 8

Now here, with instinctive thought, is my list. I better submit it or I will definitely change my mind at least once!

1. Poet - PB Shelley
2. Playwright - Shakespeare (obvious, but necessary)
3. Novelist - Charlotte Bronte
4. Composer - Arvo Part
5. Jazz musician - Gilad Atzmon (even though beyond his music he can be a tad of an asshole)
6. Rock or pop star/group - Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave
7. Country music - Nina Nastasia
8. Movie director - Terry Gilliam (not because he's the best but because I think he would intriguingly show what film can do)
9. Painter - Frida Kahlo
10. Photographer - Cindy Sherman
11. Sculptor - transfer to 6
12. Architect - Pugin