/lit/ - Literature

I, too, am an avid Francis Bacon enjoyer

>>19164619
>not the ancient greek tragodies
ngmi

>>19164619
Never, I realized the exact opposite after I read both, mindlet.

>>19164619
the eternal anglo, bleah

>>19164636
>aeschylus and friends over homer
yikes

>>19165429
Yes.

>>19164619
>When did you realize the only books you need are Shakespeare's Complete Works and the King James Bible?
I'd Plato and a few others. But you're mosty right. Fuck the consumerist fags.

why was the bard so based, bros?

>>19165448
>why was the bard so based, bros?
Because he was not a murrican.

>>19165448
He was a secret Catholic.

>>19165448
Catholicism.

>>19164619
Not gonna lie I only find comedic value in Shakespeare; plays are too short for me to really develop any kind of emotional connection with the characters or script so I just laugh at the funny language. "Beads of sorrow" in Julius Caesar was about the only thing I found truly poetic across the works I've read.

Also Hamlet is grotesquely overrated and not even top 5

>>19165488
Hamlet is amazing. One of his best ones.

>>19165496
a bloo bloo bloo should I kill this man oh it's too much a bloo bloo

it's just a brooding, whiny, white-teen-male with angst and too much time on his hands.

Shakespeare can essentially be boiled down to about 2 dozen sonnets. The rest is filler.

>>19164619
I was reading about pioneers in the 19th century. There was an interesting anecdote about a party of fur trappers in Oregon in the 1820s. Some of them were illiterate and one of the party taught them to read. The only books they had, literally as you say OP, were the complete Shakespeare and the KJV. First of all it's wild to think about those being the only two books you've ever read, while living in the bumfuck wilderness killing beavers and dodging Indians and the French. But it's also to wild to imagine that such blue collar workers two hundred years ago were basically consuming what we today consider extremely erudite works. Anyways, that's my story

>>19165471
>>19165464
edward de vere was not catholic sorry

>>19165532
edward de vere was also not shakespeare
>>19165516
>muh wypipo bad
kys

>>19165546
>edward de vere was also not shakespeare
wrong, he was

>>19165655
he wasn't. it's a le wacky theory written from lacunae .

>>19165655
The authorship question is upper class seethe that a commoner who didn't go to Eton was able to write the greatest poetry of all time.

>>19165519
Based lads.

>>19165663
plenty of his contemporaries say so. hardly lacunae like you claim
>>19165672
you wave your magic wand at "natural genius" to imply that an illiterate grain merchant who could barely write his own name penned Hamlet. ridiculous

>>19165988
everyone from that time period spelled their names in various ways
and he wasn't illiterate, he almost certainly went to the grammar school in Stratford where he would have learned Latin grammar and read classics in Latin.

>>19164619
turning literature into in group out group cheerleading is perhaps the most bugmanesque pseud thing on this board, even moreso than sffg existing

>>19166013
"writing your name differently" doesn't seem to be the problem here lol
>he almost certainly went to the grammar school in Stratford
there's no actual evidence for this

KJV
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Iliad
Odyssey
Read them over and over again and you'll be alright anons.

>>19166791
I'll start this once I've finished Stoner

>>19164619
Yikes.
.

gottfried keller's "green henry" had an eccentric art guru who preached to only read homer, turned out to be a fraud, but the protagonist still thought it was his best teacher.

how about moby dick

>>19165516
Childish reductive "criticisms" like these are pathetic

>>19164650
You need every book except Shakespeare's Complete Works and the Bible

Is the King James still the best edition?

>>19167799
what do you mean by best?

>>19167824
the more accurate, the one that you should read

>>19167829
Accurate to what?

>>19167832
the translation.

>>19167835
You do realise that there's a major problem with the source texts, right? As in there's multiple fragmentaries, and early poor translations. And "discovered" texts? And divergent text traditions?

Jesus fuck cunt. Welcome to Theology. Prepare to be raped and burnt alive.

No KJV is fucken useless if you believe in Christ unless you're from a Cult so opposed to Jesus' message that you need to die.

KJV is a major work of 17th century poetry.
It is not representative of the source texts.

>>19167853
how does the KJV contradict Jesus?
it sure isn't on par with modern corrected editions, but come on, calm your tits, mate.

>>19164619
Based and 19th century frontier homestead pilled

>>19167970
So we don't have a good documentary connection to Jesus. Sauline letters and the four canonicals plus Thomas are the earliest.

The sayings are almost certainly authentic to an esseneist political movement: but where's the Jesus?

The narrative gospels are suspicious, a major political event should be recorded. A minor political event should not be inserted in josephus.

Seriously catch up. Then there's the transmission problems.

Also Virgins aren't Authorised, nor are Handiworkers. Its essenes invading pharisee territory.

>>19164619


WHEN I RECOGNIZED THAT I AM ANGLOID CREATURE WHOSE DILECTION IS APTEST FOR HOKEY, KITSCHY SONNETS, AND PLAYS, AND WHOSE COGNITIVE CAPACITY CAN APPREHEND ONLY AN ADULTERATED VERSION OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURE.