/lit/ - Literature

Are there any latinate words in Old English, specifically (since I'll get banned if I don't mention anything lit-related) Beowulf? This was obviously before the Norman occupation, but I wonder if the Celts had absorbed any Latin and passed it on to the Anglos before the 11th century.

Any poetry similar to Samuel Beckett's prose, particularly his short stuff? That's to say, something abstract and cryptic but also emotive and brooding, and that which achieves an atmosphere similar to Beckett's. I suppose it would be better to describe what I'm looking for as "expressionistic", but I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to terminology.

Preferably modernist period on; epic and romantic poetry are too "flowery" to me, and it makes me uncomfortable.

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Pretty much just Harry Potter. I can justify it by saying it's important to me. But besides Tolkien, I can't read any adult fantasy, because it posits itself as mature, and contemporary genre fiction is hostile to literary fiction (I get why we come off as pretentious and elitist, but this is just a sign of intellectual insecurity). Take Terry Brooks, whom I loved as a teenager--reading him now seems like an empty experience, and at least HP gained its cultural momentum during my lifetime.

In any case, if I hadn't grown up reading Harry Potter, I'm sure I wouldn't still enjoy it.