/lit/ - Literature

>>10009891

Great list, I'd cut Dickinson, Goethe, Schiller and add Byron and Whitman.

Goethe and Schiller are absolutely brilliant, and their work invaluable to human culture and literature in general. That said, non-native speakers and their work translations. Baudelaire maintained for datromanticism.jpg, same reason I'm adding Byron.

Cutting Dickinson because her poetry is middling and infinitely over-hyped. Wow, early slant rhymes and Rupi Kaur tier spacing. Slant Rhymes are lazy and you don't get bonus points for having a hole instead of a stick.

Adding Whitman to balance against eurocentrism and give a flavor of American literary contribution, however limited. Leaves of Grass is also considered by many to be the only Atheist epic poem, although I find in it a more pagan sense of nature worship. Beautifully written for a sunny day in the good light.