/lit/ - Literature

>>13497662
I can't wait to read your book, sexy bionocle posting anon.
>these modern authors are simple robot-minds that cater to the hypersocialized blue light-addled consumers who need the gray and dull grim to give color to their lives
It's fucking true. My 1896 collection of South Pacific stories sold for one dollar through the mail has more life and style in it than anything I've read that was published in the last ten years.

>>9220132

>What has browsing /lit/ done for you?

help me get in touch with many spergs who are uniquely miserable in the very selective and specific ways that i am.

>>8922584

>she should read some poetry

Why bother? You clearly don't need to these days. As long as millennials identify with your political praxis and struggles they will buy any old horseshit you throw at them.

>>8833259

triggered.

TRIGGERED.

>>8227285

>Holy shit it is [current year] and people still argue over the definition of atheism on the internet.

Younger posters arrive and start posting as older posters leave and stop posting. So there will always be topics like these because the younger posters are just starting to explore what the older ones have already explored and moved on from.

This is really basic stuff to work out, m8.

>It's a poem about how great poetry is

>>7927354

>I Barely read fiction.

This board...

What can I read to help get me out of my depression or put my crummy life in better perspective? Will any of the romantic poets help me?

>>6234756
>tfw kierk would have made a great catholic theologian but he missed his calling

By today's standards, and in many cases by their own contemporary standards,

>Wordsworth
>Coleridge
>Byron
>Edmund Burke
>Borges
>Thomas Carlyle
>John Buchan
>Chateaubriand
>Chesterton
>T.S. Eliot
>Ezra Pound
>Wyndham Lewis
>John Milton
>JF Cooper
>John Dos Passos
>Richard Yates
>Dostoyevsky
>William Faulkner
>Robert Frost
>Knut Hamsun
>Ted Hughe
>Huysmans
>Kipling
>CS Lewis
>Thomas Mann
>HL Mencken
>Nabokov
>Walter Scott
>Jonathan Swift
>Tennyson
>Evelyn Waugh
>Wodehouse
>WB Yeats

I could go on. I have no idea where you got this notion that 'most intellectuals have been left wing'. Contemporary academia is certainly overrun with lefties, but - if anything - that contradicts intellectual history.

N.B., in several cases - Wordsworth, Dostoyevsky, Coleridge, Dos Passos, etc. - the people I posted had 'leftist' tendencies in their earliest youth but quickly swung to the polar opposite in their twenties or thirties. Predictably, the left tries to use their fledgling idealism as evidence of lifelong devotion to their side. In reality, all the names I posted spent more time as 'conservatives' than as 'liberals', though the terms are fluid and difficult.

>>4769002

I was about to say that we've actually got surprisingly good taste. Not very 'avant garde' - with a few clear exceptions, chiefly poetic - but you could compose a fairly interesting reading list from this thread.

Try the same thing on /tv/ and you'd have less luck.

lolok

>spent last two years planning to major in English or Philosophy
>take a summer Astronomy class on a whim at local community college
>professor is amazing, learn more than I've learned in any other class, latent shallow interest in astronomy is somewhat deepened and enhanced
>now I'm split
>love reading fiction, but don't really like the Academia circle jerk and writing nonsense theses to appeal to a board of pseudo-intellectuals
>really interested in astronomy at both lower and advanced levels
>spent the first 21 years of my life basically thinking that sciences were all latent talent and I would never succeed if I couldn't do rapid fire calculations in my head
>realize I was just rusty from never really giving much thought to stem classes
>scared that If I go into astronomy, those years of ignoring stem will bite me in the ass
>borrowed several books from the library to self-teach myself as much as possible
>have to decide my major in a few months and decide on a school

w-what do I do? If I had only a passing interest in math/stem until 6 months ago, is that going to seriously hold me back or can I play catch up in the next 6 months before I would have to start school? Is liberal arts academia really as bad as it seems from the inside? My GPA is only 3.07 right now since I fucked up one semester due to depression/laziness, and I'll be a transfer student so these factors really limit my school choice. I wouldn't be able to get into Ivy League.

d-doushio?

What are your thoughts on Romanticism?
I have limited knowledge of the period, only having read Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Coleridge and about halfway through A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but have decided to take a Romanticism course at Uni.
From what I have read, I really like the sublime nature of the poetry and, in Wordsworth's words the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling."
What do you guys think? What is your favourite Romantic poet/poem/novel?

>>2782284
>being a tripfag
>any year

>no Wordsworthians on /lit/

No matter you're so terrible. Pic related, my face when.