/lit/ - Literature

>love prose stylists
>love writers who are particularly renowned for the beauty of their style: Gibbon, Johnson, Burke, John Henry Newman, Nabokov, Waugh, Updike, Naipaul, etc.
>start reading some Gass for the first time, after hearing for years how great of a stylist he was
>awful, pretentious purple prose everywhere
>I mean, seriously fucking awful H.P. Lovecraft levels of awful purple prose
into the fucking garbage bin

>>18559903
>Where poems are arranged by the poet themselves, so no collected works or selected works.

Anon, I have to tell you, this is kind of silly. First off, collected editions are quite often just the individual published books by the poet bound together. Look at Frost's "Collected Poetry" and what do you find? You find his individually published books, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," etc, etc. North of Boston, by the way, is a good individual book by a poet. Want to read it? Get Frost's Collected Poetry! Yeats too, by the way. His Collected Poetry is just all of his individually published works like "In the Seven Woods." This is especially common for 20th century poets.

>>18477828
I didn't realize this was a shitpost until i got to Australia.

>>17695705
so you want to live in worse conditions than the poorest african countries right now?

All political discussions and moral debates in politics are assholes arguing about different things.

If you see the arguments of all the political debates (immigration, abortion, minimum wage), you realize that they are arguing for different things.

For example, in abortion, they do not discuss the same arguments, but some discuss the mother's well-being, her socioeconomic situation, and the others discuss the baby's right to life.
Actually there is no serious debate because both positions criticize are red herrings and scarecrows of the other positions, but neither the conservatives nor the progressives are really against the serious arguments of the other.

The same with other discussions in politics.

It seems to me this is a core issue in philosophy, but specialy in morality and economics.