/lit/ - Literature

The Greeks were smart for their time, but they're pretty useless today, and the only reason people still read them is that humanities departments are nostalgiafags who would argue Super Mario 64 is STILL the best game of all time, STILL the best game to play today. Really? Really? You would rather play SM64 than Uncharted 4? You would? Fine, we'll lock you in a room with N64 games for a year and see how much fun you have. They're blurry, for crying out loud, not to mention the low poly count. Really?

How do I into poetry?

Recently became quite attracted to the idea of poetry. I've leafed through some of Ezra Pound's ABC and read a little bit of Eliot. I'm planning on doing it properly though, going to read:

The Iliad
The Odyssey
Theogony
Works and Days
Metamorphoses
The Aeneid
Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
The Elder Edda
The Prose Edda
Beowulf
The Nibelungenlied

I do want to read most of those for their own sake, but would that be a good list to start with?

What are the best translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey? Cheers senpai.