/lit/ - Literature

>>17884525
I'll finish this book next week and find a new poet to shill. Sad Gautier never got any traction on this board. He really is amazing.

William Blake: just absolutely love him and I don’t know how many times I’ve read his complete works
Shakespeare: Large range of high quality
Goethe: see above
Abhinavagupta:enough philosophical depth that you can never be done with him.
Hegel: see above.

>>17737723
If Orwell and Kingsley Amis disliked Pound, that's only to the credit of Pound- those two are offensively asinine and vapid writers, lacking all vision entirely (also why should we care what people who were primarily novelists think of poets? Do we ask basketball players to comment on the performance of baseball players?). Pound transcended them entirely. You'll notice that the people who hated Pound, for example Nabokov, are generally decadent materialists who of course wouldn't understand Pound's spiritual gesturing.

1. The Flowers of Evil
2. Book of Disquiet
3. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Who are the funniest jesters in literature? I want to have a laugh!