/lit/ - Literature

>>23352571
>87)
This one is dated as the year 1778. I key clue!
If we then take the list of remaining authors we can easily filter it down to those born before 1778. leaving us only:
William Blake, William Congreve, Edward Dryer, John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, John Webster and Thomas Wyatt (Lamb was born 1775, Wordsworth 1770 and Walter Scott 1771 but as they'd be 3, 8 and 7 years old we can exclude them)

7 choices. But if we dig closer, Walpole here addresses the person as you in the second person. This may be a leap of faith, but without the obvious quote of poetry I suspect the poet being referred to is one and the same as the recipient of the letter!
Congreve, Dryer, John Gay, Goldsmith, Webster, and Wyatt were all dead at this point!

This leaves only William Blake left who could possibly have received it!
A look at Blake's bibliography shows that by 1778 he had published nothing, but there was a collection of unpublished poems called Poetical Sketches he distributed in letters to friends!
Now there were many poems in this collection. So to dig deeper we see Walpole refer to the work as an "Act". Now while there were many poems in the collection there were dramatic fragments for plays Edward the Third and King Edward the Fourth.

Through this line of reasoning I have concluded that 87 refers to William Blakes blank verse dramatic fragments for his unfinished Edward the 3rd and 4th plays!

Do evil people know they are evil? Do they believe they are evil? Do they waver in and out of that belief or does it stay consistent?

The library of Alexandria did burn down but certainly not all of the books. Where are the books?

The oxford comma is necessary since, without it, a sentence may seem to be a list without a connective (which may be stylistic, but also improper for certain documents), or may even have a comma splice. Example:
>The board of /lit/ was filled with all types of dilettantes, patricians, plebeians, would-be-writers, readers and frogposters.

>>21561530
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Vg-WvJ8uM

>>18789141
it's the basic fit pass and the carrefour shaving cream for me, can't get that combination anywhere else

>>17432721
Well we do know that he thought slavery is the basic requirement for high culture, we also know that he despised commercialism and praised war, but at the same time he had a negative view of petty european nationalism and wars among european nations. He also had a negative view of socialism, in one aphorism he claimed that european workers embrace socialism only because they view fat pink cheecks manlet capitalist as inferior and not worthy of their position and that they would never dare rebelling against warrior generals, in another aphorism he said that europe should import asians as slave labour since they are more passive.

>>16365431
>>16365473
isn't it sad to samefag at your age?
and not, reactionary views have nothing to do with childhood memories since they refer to a time that the subjects in question have never experienced
they are more similar to anarchist and marxist, in that they long for an ideal state of things that never actually existed and never will
t. neoliberal chad

Is there any book that instructs one on how to scam people?
Or on how to become a grifter?

>>15645444
you must learn history, for example only 2% of italians spoke what is now considered italian before the unification, before the french revolution on 3 million people in france spoke french out of 25 million
the distruction of local dialects or languages and traditions was enforced due to the centralization of power under the control of the elites

>>15645448
i base it on what i create myself

Anyone else notice the recent increase in shill tactics?
>/pol/ resentment
>using memes to deflect arguments
>slide threads

>>15139952
/lit/ what can we add to this ?

Im writing my first novel. How many words a day should I aim to write? I work full time.

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