/lit/ - Literature

>If multiculturalism meant Cervantes, then who could protest?

>>21529474
>"I cannot think of any other author", said Harold Bloom of Edgar Allan Poe, "who writes so abominably, and yet is so clearly destined to go on being canonical."

>there is no possibility for critical dispute about Wolfe's literary merits; he has none whatsoever.

>>18090712

Why was his taste so shit?

>Loved Whitman best and basically judged poets by how Whitmanian they are. Whitman is good but grow up.
>Called Melville’s the Confidence Man unreadable. Didn’t like Clarel either.
>Called anyone who was ever slightly critical of the jews a bad writer despite speaking out constantly against a group of bogies called “the school of resentment”.
>Always neurotically tried to get past Poe because his mentor lauded him (anxiety of influence there)
>Thought Lorca was a great poet
>Thought Stevens was a great poet
>Was a hardline stratfordian
Holy fuck this guy’s critical judgements sucked. Just shows how far you can get in the world of letters if you actually do the reading, which no one does, and bluster on and on about it until someone listens.

>>17577447
Because that’s not reading.

>>17331864
Wait, so you're telling me this fat fuck could only bother to lose a couple of pounds when he was old as fuck and about to die?
Are you serious? Then, why the fuck should I listen to this lazy fucking Jew?

I miss him so much bros...

If you devote your life to literature, art, culture, but never contribute anything of your own, you’re not really “devoted” to anything.

You’re just an idiot then.
A literal “consoomer.”
A mindless sheep.

Pic related - case. In. Point.