/lit/ - Literature

Also since I don't want this thread to derail, don't post here if you don't know what Academic Art is.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

If I wanted to read the Anglo/western canon in the the order that it entered the anglo sphere of thought, what would that look like?
Something like
>Beowulf
>The Seafarer / The Wanderer
>holy bible
>Aquinas
>Aristotle (when was this first translated into latin and enter the anglosphere?)
>Petrarch
>Chaucer
>Plato (same question as Aristotle)
>Shakespeare
>Milton
>Charles Dickens
> etc...

I know this is wrong and missing stuff. Any help?

>>9048517

>>9048513
That's not at all what I'm implying. In fact, I'm not implying anything. I'm out-right stating that /pol/ is a shit board, and /lit/ is better off left to it's own devices. Political discussions included, so long as they relate to the literature at hand directly.

>>8774702
Nice try, but my mother is not an obscure book (Although you might think so, the way I read! Heh, heh, heh!).

>>8312851
Yes, OP. Do not date any girl you could not consider marrying - complacency and good sex have doomed many a man to the shallow, joyless prison of a loathsome marriage. And if you do fall into that trap, and she doesn't read great works, she will poison your seed and your life with her stupidity.

Your sons will perpetuate your mistakes, and each branch of your line will grow in garish vapidity like a Kardashian tragedy.

Your daughters will emulate the Miley Cyrus of their times, and come back with their very own versions of the latest Beiber-esque cringefest in tow.

You will loathe the legacy you've built, and realize your obligation to purge your progeny from from the face of the Earth, leaving you to reticent solitude - a withered, moribund husk of the vigorous Atlas you might have been.

Or worse, you'll come to accept the life you've built, and call it "good-enough," thereby striking the cruel and final blow to the last shred of luminous masculinity still clinging to life within you.

>>7369929
Also William Bouguereau.

>>7298525
art is much, much more impressive in real life and with the right lighting.

I saw a huge reproduction of this in an upstairs room of a bar and it was gorgeous.

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