/lit/ - Literature

What's the hardest hitting poetry you've ever read? This is mine

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a ....

NO! NOT THE TENTACLE!
AAAAAAAHHHH IM GOING PSYCHO!

I should re-read the Lovecraft collections I have.

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Is it the case that all the greatest authors have despised whatever modernity they were born into? In my experience the most brilliant minds have romanticized a time before they existed over the world they see around them. But they have only experienced this time through influences on their writing; so is a (genuine of course) hatred of the modern styles of your time a significant prerequisite to greatness of writing?

What was his obsession with the sea?

Why do people pretend this guy's work is something extremely sophisticated? He was a literal comic book writer.

Is HP Lovecraft part of the canon now or will he forever be considered a mere pulp writer?

Absolute hack

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger

>now, It's worth noting, again, that *chuckle* HP Lovecraft, was a devout racist! and, *snicker* would, if alive today, be considered what now call, heh, an incel!

I finally took the dive to read some of the works from this early 1900s Mark Zuckerberg and read Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulu, and The Thing on the Doorstep.

While they kept me occupied, this sort of down-to-earth monologue wasnt what I expected. After seeing and reading hype for years and some cursory glances at some wikipedia pages, I thought I was about to read something truly cosmic - sublime glimpses into the sordid inner workings of an infinite and incomprehensible universe. Monolithic beings of inconceivable malice and/or indifference who warp time, space, and sanity just by existing. Mystery and intrigue that stretch back millions of years and undermine every perceived understanding humans have about the origins of mankind and reality.

Instead what I got was... Wordy 1930s autistic fags discovering funky shenanigans at the local drug store, Scooby-doo style.

They weren't awful, but I went into this with a hunger that was not sated. Maybe I'm looking at this with the wrong perspective. If I am, could someone enlighten me? What here is supposed to fill me with bone-chilling awe? Am I just an awful millenial with an annoyingly high bar of stimulus?

While I'm at it, are there any books out there that do fulfill the description I wrote above to any degree?

>The whole policy ofHarper's—a magazine of frankly aristocratic appeal—is slanted at an intellectual type of about the New-Deal degree of political leftness, whilst the real thinkers of all collegiate classes since 1930 are overwhelmingly liberal. Virtuallyallthe reputable authors & critics in the United States are political radicals—Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Eastman, O'Neill, Lewis, Maxwell Anderson, Macleish, Edmund Wilson, Fadiman—but the list is endless. It would be shorter & easier to compile a list of first-rate writers who arenotleftists!
woah

I have never read any of his work before but the idea of cosmic horror sounds very interesting to me. What should I read first, anons?

How did Cthulhu enter Earth's atmosphere without burning up?

What's his best work?

He looks like one of the creatures in his stories

Has any writer been cancelled more quickly than this guy? In the space of about two years he's become known as a rabid white supremacist instead of a kooky horror writer

Today is the birthday of the greatest writer in human history

Where to start? Anyone have the Lovecraft chart?

>fish people
I CANT UNDERSTAAAAAAAAND I MUUST SUICIDE AHHHHHH

Why is almost all his creatures sea-like? Did Lovecraft live near the ocean or liked swimmin' or fishin' or something?

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yawn. that's what we said about faggots, but you never listened. the window shifts. if you roped the sodomites you wouldn't be dealing with the tranny menace in the first place, you people never learn. who said conservatism never tries to conserve anything? if we conserved our racial demographics, we wouldn't have demos that completely disrespect literature now.

by the time liberals learn, it's always too late.

Was he a good writer or just an ideas man?