/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/

I've been writing poetry for years, ever since high school (I'm a senior in college now), and I don't often share my poems with people. I don't do this because I'm afraid of rejection, but mostly because I consider them to be very personal for me.
I recently showed a few to a friend of mine and they said something that surprised me. They said that my writing style and poetic voice are really old-fashioned and archaic. Upon looking back, they're right. I write sonnets a lot, and the language I use is really inspired by more Elizabethan-style English rather than modern.

If I were to publish someday, is there an audience for that sort of poetry? Or would I have to modernize my style in order to get published?

Hi /lit. I'm looking for literature that exemplifies the ideas of Nietzsche and Freud.

For the former, there is Ulysses (the whole say yes to life thing), and The Man Without Qualities, but they are both too long and Ulysses to, well, difficult. Is there anything more compact?

For Freud there are the obvious ones like Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, but can you think of any novels? Especially that exemplify the ideas in Beyond the Pleasure Principle or Civilization and its Discontents?