/lit/ - Literature

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Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot.

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>>13362690
Evelyn Waugh

Marianne Moore

>>13362758
my nigga

>>13362780
can't tell if trole

>Virginia 50 and still mogging.

GOAT List

Gertrude Stein is the most inventive female writer and the most "important" in that sense but even her good stuff doesn't really feel fully there and she has a lot of bad writing too. For me, she loses points for how quickly she makes your eyes glaze over.

Virginia Woolf is my brilliant horseface waifu.

Plath was a bad writer who suddenly became good in her last book and I like her a lot. She's a little strained for effect but she has good ones.

Anne Carson has so many flaws, but she's fun and an original and she's possibly the best living poet so put her on the list.

Marianne Moore is tryhard and irrelevant. Elizabeth Bishop is solid but conspicuously minor.

I can't put Bronte/Austen/Eliot on the GOAT list because society novels suck.

I thought Frankenstein was very good but I know some people feel the opposite.

Sappho seems like the Taylor Swift of her time but I'm told in Greek she's more striking than in translation so who knows.

Sucks that there were 2300 years where women weren't able to be writers in between Sappho and the rest.

I can't help noticing that nearly all the best female writers share the same flaw, which is that they're obsessed with their own insignificant little qualiatic fluctuations and quotidian trivia. It's narcissistic and gets tedious.

Anyway, for me, as I said, Gertrude loses points so despite her technically greater inventiveness I give Woolf the gold, Plath possibly the silver, and Gertrude can share the bronze with Carson who has a similarly uneven output and counters Gertrude's inventiveness with still some inventiveness and much more "soul".

>>13362758
bingo boingo

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>>13362690
You posted her

>>13363350
>Plath was a bad writer who suddenly became good in her last book and I like her a lot. She's a little strained for effect but she has good ones.
Are you talking about The Bell Jar?

>>13362758
Exactly.

>>13362690
O’Connor? Dislike her. Second-rate, a non-entity. Nobody takes her bitter old-maid vengeance mixed with cardboard Christian brimstone seriously.

>>13362690
ZZ Packer

>>13362768
anne frank lookalikes and impersonators are so much cuter than the actual anne frank

Ayn Rand. Period.

>>13363350
>*nglos

>>13363695
Anglo website faggot.

>>13363601
No, Ariel.

Dickinson
>>13362788
redpill me on her

>>13363654
>O’Connor? Dislike her. Second-rate, a non-entity. Nobody takes her bitter old-maid vengeance mixed with cardboard Christian brimstone seriously.
Good, but the name isn't followed by a question mark.

>>13363689
This.

>>13362768
Disqualified.

Shelley and Radcliffe, obviously.

none

>>13363350
>Sappho seems like the Taylor Swift of her time
What did you mean by this?

Post a better bibliography. You literally can't

>>13363862
Who is the pic? Is it a girl. I sort of look like her. I’m a boy

>>13364318
Simple direct love songs over repetitive lyre patterns. Which of Sappho's songs are all that deep?

Also, isn't Swift closeted or something?

>>13365241
Redpill me on Sappho's lyre strumming. Do you have a tab or anything?

>>13363707
She's a Dickinson-tier poet. See:
https://second-inversion.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-jelly-fish-by-marianne-moore.html
https://poets.org/poem/fish-1
https://poets.org/poem/grave

>>13365467
>Moore
>a Dickinson-tier poet.
That’s laughable desu. Try Cecilia Meireles, Sarah Kirsch, Kiki Dimoula or Hilda Hilst.

>>13365480
>has to list all his favorite foreign poets to try to counter the claim
>not a single woman writing in English producing better poetry than Moore
A scathing critique.

>>13364540
Her name’s Christa Winsloe

Marylinne Robinson tqgwyf

>>13365747
Read Louise Glück if your burger ass actually need a non-"foreign" poet. Moore is a woman’s poet. Second-rate through and through.

clarice lispector

The greatest lyric poet of all time