/lit/ - Literature

>>10451867
>> Top 5 writers
>Shakespeare
>Tolstoy
>Proust
>Nabokov
>Dante?
>> Top 5 philosophers
>Plato
>Aristotle
>Descartes
>Kant
>Marx
>> Top 5 works of literature
This changes for me to often
>Odyssey
>Hamlet
>Divine Comedy
>Paradise Lost
>Unironically Ulysses I'm sorry it just does so much
>> Top 5 works of philosophy
Just see two above
>Republic
>Meditations on first Philosophy/method
>Critique of Pure Reason, fuck reading it though
>Phenomenology of Spirit because it feels like jumping into abstract fantasy
>Being and Time

Unironically the entire meme trilogy. Ulsysses was really good at times but IJ was embarassingly awful and GR was just stupid. I understand they're memes but I think this board sucks off Homer and Dostoe way more

I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?