/lit/ - Literature

>>13829584

Guy on the left is literally me lol

>I am his highness' dog at Kew;
>Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Oh wait that's Pope

ITT: Famous quotes and their creators
Alexander Pope has quite a few, so I'll just post the more popular ones
>Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
>Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
>Dirty deeds [. . .] done dirt cheap
>To err is human, to forgive, divine
>A little learning is a dangerous thing
>The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness
>I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
>Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect
>Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!

This is what happens when you shun the popeposter

They referenced me!
*claps*

>àèìòù

Which one person of all the possible candidates in the history of English-language prose, poetry, etc. had the, in your perception or at least in your best guess, largest, greatest, and biggest influence on the English we speak, write; hear, read today? For me it has to be the 17th century English poet Alexander Pope. Most famous for his brilliant rendering in English of Homer's The Iliad. You can search him on Google and find examples of his writing there.

>>13725631
>whole book is about getting a haircut

All the fags in here telling OP not to fuck her are the same fags who'd've told Abraham to disobey God.
>You just resent your son!
>You're being tricked by a demon!
>You're mentally ill!
No! I say, friend Op, fuck her with every inch thou canst muster.

She's a straight, cis woman who also happens to be my dearly belovèd.

Guys easy on the. This is my wife we're talking about.
>>13660907
Yes

My apartment complex burned down yesterday and all that survived from my room was a copy of The Dunciad. Should I finally read it?

>>13643151

>>13643591
>that that'd had to've had

>listening to Bartok whilst reading Pope

Because most great minds come to understand there's more worth in pumping and dumping.

>>13587375
Butterfly is based and almost always right

This is now an Alexander Pope thread

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ITT: Post authors who you think would be "gender nonconforming" if they were alive today

What are some good books with titles that make you go "Okay, WHAT was the author thinking here?"? I'll start
>Moby Dick
>The Rape of the Lock
>Kalevala
>The Dunciad