/lit/ - Literature

If—and it is difficult to see how the assertion can be denied—the doctrine expressed in various ways but best formulated by De Quincey that “nothing can go wrong by conforming to its own ideal’ be true, the couplet of Pope, in and by itself, is invulnerable and imperishable.
But it very soon appeared that a third adjective of the same class, which indicates almost a necessary quality of the highest poetic forms, could not be applied to it. It was not inimitable. The admitted difficulty, if not impossibility, of deciding, on internal evidence, as to the authorship of the books of The Odyssey translated by Pope himself, as compared with those done by Fenton and Broome, showed the danger; and the work of the rest of the century emphasised it.

Any good writers who were sexual predators? Pic unrelated.

Why waste your time on refuted literature when you could read the pillars of the western canon freed from their antiquated lingustic restraints—the noblest matter of antiquity metamorphosed in the highest form? (English rhyming couplets [sit down Milton.].)You may begin with the Metamorphoses of Arthur Golding. Its influence on English literature is immense. It's the version Shakespeare took from. Ezra pound called it "the most beautiful book in the English language." Golding's Metamorphoses is to Chapman's Odyssey as Dryden's Aeneid is to Pope's Iliad (this is the Holy Quaternity of English epic translation).
Based, redpilled, fpbp, and /thread
>inb4 you can't /thread yourself
Have sex and/or dilate
A good friend also asked me is there, pray tell, a Holy Quintinity composed of five translations rather than four? Yes, the Divine Comedy. Longfellow is the only passable translation. It is book the fifth of the Holy Quintinity, formerly Holy Quaternity.
You have been refuted.

Get the Arthur Golding translation. It's influence on English literature is immense. It's the version Shakespeare took from. Ezra pound called it "the most beautiful book in the English language." Golding's Metamorphoses is to Chapman's Odyssey as Dryden's Aeneid is to Pope's Iliad (this is the Holy Quaternity of English epic translation).
Based, redpilled, epbp, and /thread
>inb4 you can't /thread yourself
Have sex and/or dilate

Because Alexander Pope exists.
Fun fact: The Bridge was inspired by The Dunciad as much as it was by The Waste Land.

*translates a few lines of ancient script into heroic couplets*
I'm in

All /lit/ e-girls will read Pope (peace and prayers of Allah be upon him). If we are to be spammed with these useless threads, they will be made to read Pope (peace and prayers of Allah be upon him). Let us introduce them to The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and Eloïsa to Abelard.

Pope (ﷺ) wrote the most epic translation of the Iliad didn't he.

>>15097305
We are Anonymous.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.

>>15052991
The Rape of the Lock

Pope

I prefer Pope above all

>>14966420
>arquetypical structures of arcs
Do you mean archetypal? There are plenty of great stories with original narrative structures.
>a build up or crescendo of conflict
>a conflict that is between arquetypical characters
>climatic scenes and space to rest
>the characters psychology are explored
Not common to all great stories.
>the villain and the hero goes to full consumption of their rivality with final important stakes
lmao most serious literature doesn't have heros vs villains
>a nice story
>a balanced orchestration
>nice character arcs
>proper spacing
>a proper plot twist
To say beauty has certain properties is to say what it means for something to be "nice" or "proper" or "balanced." Defining a beautiful story as a story with nice, proper, and balanced elements says nothing. What makes those properties nice, proper, and balanced is what is up for contention.

Admit you just made a pro-women post in the hopes of creating an anti-women thread that essentially has nothing to do with literature. Please stop fucking talking about women.

I like when cute girls have acne and stuff
The Dunciad

fuck there were three books i wanted for $3.18 but i only had $2 in change

Millions of ugly guys are currently fucking. Your father, his father, and so on all fucked. Most incels aren't even below average; they have no confidence and don't know how to present themselves.
Even if for some reason you can't get an attractive girl, there are plenty of "ugly" girls who would be happy to have your affection.
Also you have to go back I wanna discuss Alexander Pope now.

The Latinx Alexander Pope

Well you're not wrong

Easily the best poet and prose stylist.

>>14586150
>a little learning is a dangerous thing

Ought the limerick to be good? I really liked Gass's several limericks in The Tunnel, cause they where really funny.