/lit/ - Literature

Come on /lit/, are you even trying?

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati …when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

>tfw reading Hardy
>tfw just discovered Donne
>tfw reading Ovid for the first time

Why would I ever bother picking up a tedious, shitty novel that would take days of reading for a few moments of catharsis when I can enjoy the compressed, sustained transcendental genius of a lyric poem over and over to my heart's content?

Prosefags, explain yourself.

That feel when stayed up until 4am reading Pound instead of doing the required reading for class tomorrow.

His Chinese translations are incredible.