/lit/ - Literature

>>13094314
oh but there is

>>12685241
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand epic poetry.

They represent an oral tradition which is crucial to the development of literature as a whole and provide insights into the cultures and values of a time and place which standard historical analysis cannot. They represent a combination of literary arts which has been shattered and scattered into what we see as largely separate forms today:
>Poetry
>narrative
>philosophy/ politics
I cannot deny that a great deal of overlap exists between these three. However no one has been able to effectively combine them since Milton, which is why people say Paradise Lost is the last great epic.

t. a guy who wants to write the next one
There is no higher literary form than epic poetry IMO. But what do I know, I am nothing more than a pseudo brainlet.

What is the best edition of Paradise Lost?

Acknowledge he’s the goat RIGHT now.

Say something nice about the most based poet of all time.

>Satan literally acts like an internet atheist/normie hedonist obsessed with rationalism and hedonism
How the fuck did Milton know lads?

Milton
At university he was teased by other students because of his long hair and fair complexion. They called him “The Lady of Christ’s College”. He was once temporarily expelled after quarrelling with a teacher.
He went blind at age 46 – thus ‘writing’ his masterpieces with the help of his 3 daughters, who doubled as (unwilling) secretaries. He married again after the death of his first wife – and again after the second died. He never saw his last 2 wives, due to his being blind when he married them.
After he died his widow sold the copyright of Paradise Lost, the greatest epic poem in English, for £8 .