/lit/ - Literature

>>19960822
Shakespeare

McCarthy.

Blood Meridian > Moby Dick

>>19960835
>comedies mogged by Cervantes
>tragedies mogged by Racine
>poetry mogged by Ben Jonson
Try again

>>19960822
Carlyle mogs Melville in both looks and prose.

>>19960849
>>tragedies mogged by Racine
Ridiculous.

>>19960865
Hahaha you caught me, I have never and will never read Racine. And anyone who doesn’t speak French who says otherwise is lying. Still, in general Milton >>> Shakespeare, and his sonnets are good but not exceptional. Really just at par for his period, which to be fair was very competitive

>>19960878
The main value of Shakespeare comes from his drama, through that his poetry shines higher than almost all. It's a mistake to dissect him up and compare every feature individually. After all it was Milton who wrote:

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-ypointing pyramid?
Dear son of Memory, great heir of fame,
What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thyself a live-long monument.
For whilst to th’ shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book
Those Delphic lines with deep impression took,
Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,
Dost make us marble with too much conceiving;
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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>>19960878
His sonnets filter.

>>19961171
His sonnets are gay

Knut Hamsun. Too crazy to mog. Goebbels tried to mog him. The entire nation of Norway tried to mog him. Can't be done he's the wildcard he'll do anything fuck a bitch with a hairlip ass dude

>>19961191
Hitler mogged him.

Milton unironically mogs everyone

>>19961690
>>19960897
these niggas get it

>>19960822
Funnily enough he would be one of the first to agree that Shakespeare would “mog” him, as you say. This is why I can’t place Toolstoy above Melville because 1. Moby-Dick has a theological, philosophical, and naturalistic depth that Tolstoy can’t begin to match in his naive religious conclusions in Anna Karenina (though granted he did reneg on them later), and even less so in his patently amateur speculations on history in War and Peace and 2. Because Tolstoy could never acknowledge that anyone could be a better writer than him, which is the height of hubris considering he never attempted plays or poetry like Shakespeare but still dismisses him out of hand

>>19960822
Any straight white male who didn't write a book about BWC obsession

>>19962939
And also every straight white female who wrote a book about BWC obsession

>>19960928
/thread

Ludwig Klages has a good shot.

>>19960928
mogged by pynchon

>>19961174
If you don't like homosexuality then reading literature if not for you.

>>19961260
it was literally the other way around. Hamsun shat on Hitler and made him speak up

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>>19965032
how does this text make you feel, Anon?

>>19964649
reading without a properly relaxed anus is worse than reading without a bookmark.