Eh, I think your style categories are useful, but I can easily think of examples of non-fiction, novels and poetry that would fit into each and every type of house. I once had a very heated argument with my Persian-American ex defending the salt-box style of my favorite poetry written in English. I scored half a point with this quote because he was arrogant enough to think it could be about him. -lol.Riggerjack said: In writing, nonfiction would be the salt box, novels the craftsman and Victorian, poetry is the style extreme, where the fanboys hang out.
Wilderness
By Lorine Niedecker
You are the man
You are my other country
and I find it hard going
You are the prickly pear
You are the sudden violent storm
the torrent to raise the river
to float the wounded doe
Of course, I think "favorite" and "best" are two different concepts. The Persian language is more poetic at core because so many words hold multiple meanings. OTOH, IMO, everything written in Arabic comes off like raw, driving rap. Part of the reason I can't bear to watch the news is it's so apparent that hardly anybody who works for the media organizations in the West has even a pre-school level appreciation of these facts.
Off the top of my head, three salt-box style novelists might be Hemingway, Kent Haruf, and Willa Cather. Another style of modern novel that is one of my favorites is what is sometimes referred to as K-Mart or dirty realism, this might be trailer-park-style in your model. Raymond Carver, Carolyn Chute, Katherine Dunn and Anne Tyler are some popular practitioners of this style. What single style of architecture could possibly encompass the works of Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louis Zukofsky, Maxim Gorky, Ray Bradbury, Jose Saramago, Laurence Sterne, Graham Greene, Aimee Bender, Toni Morrison, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Mann, John Dickson Carr, Diane Johnson, Haruki Murakami, John Lanchester, John Updike, E.L. Doctorow, Louise Erdrich, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Sigrit Undset, Penelope Fitzgerald, Samuel Butler, Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Alice Rice, Albert Camus, Norman Mailer, Jane Austen, Vladimir Nabokov, Elmore Leonard, Charles Dickens, Chuck Palahniuk, Herman Melville, E. Annie Proulx, etc.etc.etc.