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Anonymous Mon Jun 27 20:04:02 2022 No.20591477 [Reply] [Original]

Shakespeare's epithet is 'the Bard'
Dante's epithet is 'il sommo poeta' or 'the Highest Poet'.
The fact that no other writer has an epithet just goes to show how far Shakespeare and Dante have transcended literature.

>>	Anonymouṡ Mon Jun 27 20:16:44 2022 No.20591542 >>20591477 Henry James — The Master

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 20:18:08 2022 No.20591550 >>20591477 Homer had an epithet for the Greeks, he was the poet, poietes. And we call him the father of poetry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 20:32:37 2022 No.20591624 Ossian has an epiphet "The King of Song" Beat that

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 20:48:54 2022 No.20591725 >>20591624 'King' is cliche. Wagner is 'The Sorcerer'.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 20:53:53 2022 No.20591751 Epithets are for fags. Pushkin's tragic life and death far outshine Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 21:24:12 2022 No.20591867 >>20591477 >no other writer has an epithet D'Annunzio is "Il Vate" (a word for vaticinator and, by extension, for poet).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 21:36:38 2022 No.20591924 >>20591624 If only James Macpherson could write even passably good prose or poetry, then his "ossian" might be impressive

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 21:40:54 2022 No.20591942 >>20591867 D'Annunzio sucks get over it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 21:42:30 2022 No.20591948 >>20591942 You suck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 21:42:39 2022 No.20591949 what would be (You)r epithet /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 21:45:13 2022 No.20591963 >>20591949 Il fagotto

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:05:38 2022 No.20592080 >>20591924 Ah yes i I remember when James MscPherson went back in time and told everyone from Cork to John O Groats about Ossian and personally wrote medieval manuscripts containing his poems

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:09:57 2022 No.20592105 >>20592080 Oh boy, I sure wish you had a single shred of evidence to back up the claim that Ossian was real.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:12:00 2022 No.20592120 >>20592105 About as much to show Homer was real which is beside the point that he was known as the King of Song.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:20:54 2022 No.20592168 File: 123 KB, 680x910, 1639767249315.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20591477 The trinity is complete

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:27:32 2022 No.20592188 >>20591542 Henry James — The Pale Porpoise

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:43:49 2022 No.20592258 File: 78 KB, 750x635, 1636755055969.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20591477 Post your epithet for when you make it bros >The Based

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:54:36 2022 No.20592308 >>20592120 Homer is assigned actual literature which actually existed, and has survived to the modern day. Ossian has nothing but myths and rumors and James MacPhersons fake attributed writings

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 22:59:32 2022 No.20592330 >>20591942 Fucking dumbass

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 23:24:18 2022 No.20592449 File: 57 KB, 400x534, Cervantes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20591477 Príncipe de los Ingenios >'Prince of Wits'

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 23:28:30 2022 No.20592476 >>20592449 Lope de Vega had better epithets. Fenix de los Ingeniosos and Monstruo de la Naturaleza.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 23:39:49 2022 No.20592529 >>20591949 il incellio

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 01:05:10 2022 No.20592943 >>20591963 the bassoon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 01:56:43 2022 No.20593188 >>20592943 Yes, I would be famous for my deep, sonorous tone and naturalistic imagery, while also writing like a someone’s old grandpa

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 04:06:27 2022 No.20593697 George Martin - 'The Fat Fuck'

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 05:31:39 2022 No.20593988 >>20591477 >philosopher's epithet is 'the sage of __'

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 07:17:05 2022 No.20594253 >>20591949 "Man in Clouds"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 08:09:19 2022 No.20594384 >>20592308 Okay so they both have equal grounds Homers first written poems are from 500bc Ossians first written poems are from 800ad This puts them on identical footing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 09:57:06 2022 No.20594724 File: 94 KB, 229x305, E6E1C5BF-DB79-41C9-B629-F861D5256FF7.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20591477 Erm… The Baron exists.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 28 10:09:28 2022 No.20594753 Dylan Thomas - the fighting Irish

Anonymouṡ Tue Jun 28 11:15:30 2022 No.20594939

—— EPITHETS FOR AUTHORS WHO HAVEN'T GOT ONE AND DESERVE ONE: A FEW SUGGESTIONS

Mustache Man — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Portly Papist — G.K.Chesterton

The Fartsniffer — James Joyce

The Coomer — D. H. Lawrence

Niggerman — H. P. Lovecraft

Sage Of The Jazz Age — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Snail Smuggler — Patricia Highsmith

Mr. Tiger — Nael, age 6

The Humble Agua Salesman — Cormac McCarthy

Miss Potatohead — Sally Rooney

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