/lit/ - Literature

>>23186664
Yes, I did. I'm not reading anything much. I just finished Agamemnon, a first time for me. The only other Aeschylus play I've read was Prometheus Bound. Both are very good. I was struck by many things in Agamemnon. It is something I will read again soon. I was reading a bit of A History of Pi for Pi Day and I've been reading a couple of Trollope's works here and there for a little over a year now. I'm still reading Doctor Thorne and debating whether to read the Eustace Diamonds afterwards, but Trollope, as similar as his tastes may be to mine in some ways, is entirely vulgar to me in others. He strikes me as the worst sort of middle class mind at times (whether he was of the middle class or not, I have no idea; and I was lead into his work by Julian Fellowes, who is genuine gentry, so perhaps more the fool me). I also read quite a lot of poetry and take snippets here and there of non-fiction as it suits me. I just purchased a compilation of most of Robert Frost's poetry. He is a poet I had always taken a bit unseriously, despite his achievements, but when I opened at random this collection and read for the first time 'Out, Out—', and 'All Revelation', I realized I had perhaps not given him enough looking though. However, now I am a bit sad that I have. I've found in his first collection a poem of gnostic themes, and the last thing—the absolute last thing—I want to find in any more of my favorite poets is hidden anti-Christisms or hidden Satanisms. I can't bear any more divorcing of myself from poets, but I will do as I must. Why my kindred spirits needs make war on me by making war on Christ, I cannot fully comprehend. Anyway, I read similarly as I eat: all throughout the day, and whatever my mental taste buds are craving.

I also read the Chinese writers in translation. I don't speak a lick of Chinese, but some lines from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that I cannot forget. My collection of Chinese poems I love was translated by the San Francisco Renaissance poet Kenneth Rexroth, and is called "Love and the Turning Year: 100 Poems from the Chinese," or something like that. It is a very nice small collection. Rexroth likewise did a fantastic introduction to a collection of D.H. Lawrence's poems which I have, but I've never had much appreciation for his poetry personally. I feel a bit guilty about it, heh.

>>23186692
Oh, we all know that feeling. For me it was the slow trot to death by brandy of Sir Roger Scatcherd and the state of his family and so forth. "Hurry up and die, old man! There's no saving you now! DIE!" is how I felt about it. Good work, anon.

>>23186718
That won't bore you... A high task, since I don't know you. What bores you?