/lit/ - Literature

There's no sadness, nor joy, no despair, just an acceptance of it all.

>>17375520
I'm just posting random art i have saved

>>14912559
Literally nobody says he is.

Keats is fun but didn't live long enough to do his best work
Byron hasn't aged well; pretty much unreadable nowadays
Shelley is esoteric to the point of complete opacity
Wordsworth has a good heart but most of his poetry is either bad or boring or both. Artistically there is nothing laudable about Tintern Abbey, and you can enjoy Daffodils, as I do, but you can't say it's a very good poem.
Coleridge doesn't count

Blake and Clare are the only ones who have any of my sympathy.

>>12023967
A book about the meeting of ancient indian mathematics with arab travelers who are on way to home. Hindus will try to show and teach arabs the idea of zero as number comparing it to local spicy herbs. At the beginnig this method will only make arabs angry but after couple of hours learning about zero they finally know how to use it in maths. Unfortunately due to barbaric invasion all of enlightened arabs die defending the ancient indians from invaders. Only one arab survived the fatal battle and he escaped to homeland, but the only thing he remembered from the meeting with hindus is the method of making sweet curry powder.

Who has a nice reading light they can recommend? i only have time to read at night in bed usually

Give me novels or short stories that follow a character on some kind of a journey or a pilgrimage where he meets people and discovers different cultures and goes to nature. Something like Byron or Pushkin. But not adventurous kids stuff. Bonus points if it's in french.