/lit/ - Literature

>>20722703
Byron

>>20722703
Keats

>>20722703
Byron, obviously

looking at Byron makes me feel gay

>>20722714
>>20722897
>>20722748
>caring about a syph’litic parasitic

Milton.

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>>20722721
>>20722703
Wrong

>>20723440
FUCK.

>>20722703
>>20722721
>>20723440

Does anyone here know some good guide?

>>20722703
Like both those guys

>>20723533
A guide to the six most important English Romantic poets:
>Blake
Jerusalem.
>Wordsworth
I don't rate him, but some of his sonnets are popular.
>Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel.
>Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
>Shelley
Adonais and Pronetheus Unbound.
>Keats
Odes.

>>20723553
*Prometheus

>>20722703
Neither of those two.

>>20723553
What!
>Wordsworth
Prelude
>Blake
begin with Marriage of Heaven and Hell...
>Keats
Odes, Sonnets
>Shelley
The Witch of Atlas, The Cenci (play)
>Byron
Beppo, lyrics, Don Juan
>Clare
opera
>Coleridge
opera

>>20723553
>>20723618
Mostly meant introductory SL, but thanks fren

>>20723553
>>20723618
Wordsworth needs Tintern Abbey

>>20723910
by SL I mean secondary lit

bump

>>20725201
Harold blooms book on the romantics is better than his work on Shakespeare and contains essays on all the romantics.

>>20722703
Byron is better but I prefer Shelley
>’TISdone—but yesterday a King!And arm’d with Kings to strive—And now thou art a nameless thing:So abject—yet alive! Is this the man of thousand thrones,Who strew’d our earth with hostile bones,And can he thus survive? Since he, miscalled the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.

>>20724125
Agreed, but he *needs* far more than that; any anon who reads the 1805 Prelude is going to be both stunned and delighted by Wordsworth and will no doubt read more as a result

>>20722703
No.

>>20725352
of course, i added it because it's his best and most accessible poem and also showcases his free verse on a smaller scale than the prelude. for someone who wrote almost entirely within rhyme scheme to the point of it getting annoying, wordsworth is fucking stellar in free verse
> Nor less, I trust,
>To them I may have owed another gift,
>Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
>In which the burthen of the mystery,
>In which the heavy and the weary weight
>Of all this unintelligible world,
>Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood,
>In which the affections gently lead us on,—
>Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
>And even the motion of our human blood
>Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
>In body, and become a living soul:
>While with an eye made quiet by the power
>Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
>We see into the life of things.

>>20725554
That's blank verse, not free verse.

>>20722897
he was a balding disabled manlet, is that really all it takes for you to feel gay about someone, you sissy slut?

>>20725291
name of the book?

>>20725562
i've been confusing the two for 10 years
i have the retard

>>20725554
>It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
>The holy time is quiet as a nun,
>Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
>Is sinking down in it's tranquility;
>The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea:
>Listen! The mighty Being is awake,
>And doth with his eternal motion make
>A sound like thunder--everlastingly.
>Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
>If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
>Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
>Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
>And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
>God being with thee when we know know it not.
Perfectly ok, anon

>>20722703
Herbert > Milton > Wordsworth > Byron > Keats > Shelley > Coleridge > Tennyson > Blake > Kipling

>>20725896
Browning > all

>>20723533
Fyre and Bloom.

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>>20726347
Best book by far if you're just starting out