/lit/ - Literature

>>19445275
>Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
>And thus the native hue of resolution
>Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
>And enterprises of great pith and moment
>With this regard their currents turn awry
>And lose the name of action.

Happy Birthday 4chan!

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Blessed thread. Didn't know we had so many great drawfags here.

>>16211688
neat! have you ever laid a flower on an authors grave?

>>16180139
I've been reading a bit of poetry recently. I wanted to like the romantics like Blake and Shelley but i don't like poem simply being in service of structure rather than having a "point". But i also don't like some modernist poetry where there is too little structure in service of a "point". So i found the poets of the late 19th-century to early 20th-century have been most to my taste.
My favourites have been Yeats, Frost, Eliot, and Poe. I know it's pretty newfag taste, but i still like it.

>>16159074
>meretricious
i like it because it reflects its meaning.