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>>16731853
Memories and Random Portraits
Essay for essay: The Lantern-Bearers

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His "Thoughts and Essays" and in particular the essay on Bushido. His name is Inazo Nitobe,

>>16731853
D. H. Lawrence utterly BTFO'd Bertrand Russell.

>In his autobiography, Bertrand Russell wrote of the “devastating effect” certain criticisms which D.H. Lawrence once made of his social and political views had on him. These events occurred in 1915.
>“I was inclined to believe that he had some insight denied to me,” Russell wrote, “and when he said that my pacifism was rooted in blood-lust I supposed he must be right. For twenty-four hours I thought that I was not fit to live and contemplated suicide.”

>>16732345
Autodidacts rule, Scholars drool.

W.F. Hermans, great misanthropical writer

>>16731853
Is this @jack ?

>>16732209
Thank you my friend. I will get a copy on open library. Have been wanting to get into Stevenson but was unsure of where to start.

>>16732345
remember that russell was an enternal baby-brain and that he could by shaken by any man with blood in his body

>>16731853
I know he has some fans on /lit/ but I'm sure John Cowper Powys could become a popular favorite if more people read him.

>>16731853
if there's anything to take from lawrence it's definitely his contrarian attitude because although it usually made no sense it occasionally gave him the upper hand on some analytics. like de maistre or hamann or peter abelard although reactionary had the upper hand on the more straightforward and optimistic illuminists like rousseau or voltaire etc. reactionary skeptics are a very rare type

>>16731853
Dante Gabriel Rossetti isn't mentioned much, I think he is a top tier English poet(ethnically Italian though)

Even so much life hath the poor tress of hair
Which, stor'd apart, is all love hath to show
For heart-beats and for fire-heats long ago;
Even so much life endures unknown, even where,
'Mid change the changeless night environeth,
Lies all that golden hair undimm'd in death.

>>16731853
John Ruskin. You won't be disappointed.

>>16732782
basato

Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,
Whose head upon my knee to-night
Rests for a while, as if grown light
With all our dances and the sound
To which the wild tunes spun you round:
Fair Jenny mine, the thoughtless queen
Of kisses which the blush between
Could hardly make much daintier;
Whose eyes are as blue skies, whose hair
Is countless gold incomparable:
Fresh flower, scarce touched with signs that tell
Of Love’s exuberant hotbed:—Nay,
Poor flower left torn since yesterday
Until to-morrow leave you bare;
Poor handful of bright spring-water
Flung in the whirlpool’s shrieking face;
Poor shameful Jenny, full of grace
Thus with your head upon my knee;—
Whose person or whose purse may be
The lodestar of your reverie?


read the rest too

>>16732800
His best works are tomes -The Stones of Venice, Modern Painters- but you're right, he's fantastic. If I had to rec a shorter work it would either be The Seven Lamps of Architecture or the legitimately eccentric Queen of the Air.
Based rec, anon

>>16732800
I can attest to this. Ruskin's a fascinating chap who will definitely challenge some of your beliefs.

>>16732782
rossetti prob isn't top tier but he is one of my favourite poets
really like his sonnet sequence

>>16731853
based, Lawrence made me swallow the blackpill and go MGTOW. personally I'd recommend America: A Prophecy by William Blake as he's only ever mentioned here in the context of Songs of Innocence and Experience

>>16732800
When I read someone like Ruskin I get the unshakable impression that there is simply nobody alive today who can write that competently. I know this isn't true in any objective manner, there are countless exceptionally verbally gifted people who have developed a given style of writing that are alive today, but it just feels like some technique or quality has been lost.
The quality of his thought itself is also extremely clear and precise.

>>16732628
Really, in almost all phases of writing he wrote remarkably well, and he's full of surprises; I like his essays best because I'm predominantly an essay and poetry reader, but you could start most anywhere, really. Like Chekhov he wrote tons despite the little time he had here.