/lit/ - Literature

>>16051894
Homer's poems in the original Greek.
The Sermon on the Mount (KJV).
Divine Comedy in the Italian.

>>16051894
In Search of Lost Time

>>16051894
It's got to be a tie between The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost. The prose and meaning within can never be matched

The Bible

Paradise lost and The Divine Comedy are like 2nd

>>16051925
this but unironically

>>16051894
Pale Fire.

>>16051894
This comment.

>>16051952
>prose

>>16051952
Anon, I'm concerned

bump

Unrivaled my diary.

>>16051894
The Quran

>>16051952

>>16051952
>divine comedy and paradise lost
>The prose
Absolute state

>>16051894
KJV BIBLE

>>16051952
The absolute state of..

>>16051894
>Novels:
1. In Search of Lost Time
2. Madame Bovary
3. Mody Dick

>Plays:
1. Hamlet
2. A Doll's House
3. The Seagull

>Poems:
1. Un coup de dés
2. The Waste Land
3. Le cimetière marin

>>16052111
>hurr durr if I didn't like it then it wasn't prose because the nature of things is defined by their relation to me
god I hate pseuds like you

>>16053303
most retarded post of 2020 desu

>>16053303
OH NO NO NO NO NO

KJV Bible
Paradise Lost
Buddhacharita
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra

>>16053303
based retard

>>16053303
Lmao what?
Based, I think

>>16051894
As far as sheer linguistic beauty is concerned, the Aeneid.

Hmm well lets see there's a lot of literature to go around, lotta different genres, hmm I wanna look cool and give people good recs for stuff to read, hmm what do I like the best? Hmmmmm

Oh here's a pick: how about the Bible? Have you heard of the Bible? Haha its the best book lol, the greatest story ever told!!

Oh you want three? Hmmmmmmmm

How about some italian's bible fanfic? ok ok

How about some blind anglo's bible fanfic as well.

And thats it really lol I am very intelligent when it comes to literature I read all sorts of stuff but only good stuff. My mom says I can read any kind of book, listen to any kind of music, watch any kind of movie, read any epic poem, etc., but as long as it's a Christian work! I am such a free thinker oh boy! No homer, plato, no thanks. Nothing but the good old orthodox-friendly christian holy bible and christian epics for me thanks!!!

>People only listing old works
You guys only like those works because they've been in high esteem historically

There's better works that have come out in the last 50 years than the prior 5000 years due to two reasons
>More people are literate than ever before, huge population boom aswell so we have millions of authors where historically we only had a few thousand in each country during a century
>Literary theory has evolved and we now understand what makes good literature better

>>16051894

In my personal experience I will say

The Qur’an in Arabic
Stephane Mallarmé in French
W.B Yeats in English

But in terms of what I assume is great

The Qur’an again
The Bible in both original languages
Works of Homer in Greek
Divine Comedy in Italian
Goethes Faust in German
Anna Karenina in Russian

>>16053402
12?

>>16053404

Is this bait? The last zenith of beauty in literature hasn’t happened since the 20th century. There’s plenty of good contemporary work for sure but let’s not pretend that anything has exceeded the past’s beauty yet.

>>16053404
Wrong. The best period for literature was the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th century.

>>16053416

Yeah this is almost objectively true at this point. So many classics produced between then.

"Wreck of the Deutschland." Hopkins wasn't the most profound poet in English, but I don't think anyone matches him for beauty.

Honestly was really disappointed with the KJV bible after hearing about it all my life. I think modern translations routinely surpass it in some pretty major places.

Paradise Lost has some damn good stuff, but I found it patchy as hell (if you'll pardon the pun).

Pale Fire has some beautiful lines, but Nabokov was overall an unexceptional poet. He excels in prose, but even that suffers from his vapidity as a writer.

Hamlet is phenomenal, though I think Henry IV compares.

>>16053125
God be magnified! I came to say. By a country mile.

>>16053303
>he still doesn’t understand
I really hope you aren’t baiting because this is hilarious.

>>16053303
>says he like the PROSE of paradise lost and the divine comedy
>thinks he can call other people pseuds

I’m not able to give my opinion because I haven’t read enough books to give a pertinent answer. However I’m taking notes of the books mentioned on this thread!

>>16053404
>>There's better works that have come out in the last 50 years

Like what? Share some.

>>16053598
>hmm no one laughed at my funny joke last time
>I know, this time I'll say it in really big letters, that way that way it will be extra funny and people will have to laugh!!
aww literal toddler brain, that's so cute anon
anyway, I'm sorry I hurt your fee-fees, I'm sure your taste in prose is just as good as mine :))

>>16053950
>prose

>>16053950
DUDE! Paradise lost and the Divine Comedy are POETRY! They don't HAVE prose!

>>16053987
>if I just keep trying I'm sure it will work eventually
god now I can't get that meme of the brainlet trying to push a square peg through a round hole again
I swear 4/5 of /lit/ is learning disabled

>>16051925
Yep

>>16053950
Stop embarrassing yourself and look up the meaning of prose

That guy is baiting. No (You)s from me.

>>16053950
>taste in PROSE
>the divine comedy and paradise lost