/lit/ - Literature

>>22094609
Freud
Jung
Nietzsche
Plato

>>22094609
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John

>>22094609
Pynchon?

>>22094629
swap Freud with Watts and it's perfect

>>22094609
Homer
Dante
Shakespeare
Goethe

>>22094669
But that's who's in the picture

>>22094609
I think even Goethe would be offended by him being in the same league as the other 3.

Cervantes instead of Goethe. Goethe nowhere close to the others

>>22094609
Homer >> Shakespeare > Dante >>>>> Gaythe

Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael

>>22094942
chill nigga i finna bust out the 2003 tmnt torrent if u aint stop

>>22094609
Dante has the best drip easy

>>22094609
>Goethe
lol

>>22094609
The big 4 of dramatists:

Aeschylus
Lope de Vega
Shakespeare
Wagner

Where’s F. Gardner?

>>22094609
imo?

imo

Plato
Aristotle
Marx
Nietzsche

>>22094738
>Cervantes
a meme shilled by spaniards alone. nobody cares about muh siesta comedy books. lyricism, poetry, beauty is all that matters.

>>22094609

Socrates. Jesus. Calvin. Baudrillard.

Plato
Kant
Kierkegaard

The fourth slot is up for grabs. My wife is a Thomist but I'm not so convinced — I much prefer Anselm. Yet I don't think either approaches even the diminishing returns of Kierkegaard, the greatest philosopher of the post-Enlightenment era.

>>22094609
Where the fuck is Virgil?

>>22094609
>Hesiod
>Horace
>Petrarca
>Schiller
Fixed

>>22094609
Toriyama
Oda
Isayama
Fujimoto

>>22094609
Me
Myself
Moi
Ikke

>>22096395
Christian bias

Hermes Trismegistus
Heraclitus
Jesus
Nietzsche

>>22094609
Ngl this pic goes hard af

>>22094728
I think you think that only because he came last. That's really besides the point, none would have thought they would be lumped together. Just running through all the author's I've read, I still think this is a good painting to represent the most potent imaginative authors/poets if one had to choose four. The only one I'd question is Dante for weird narrative reasons but his vision is so vivid that I can't disagree with his inclusion.

>>22094967
nigga bust on me!
bust on me nigga!
bust!

>>22094738
Cervantes is a novelist not a poet. He isn’t germane to anything.

>>22098049
novelist, poet, etc means nothing. Cervantes doesn't deserve to be there because he is not on the same level of the others. He is a robust satirist, an acute psychologist, but he is not an artist. By art i mean:

>These then with high hearts abode the whole night through along the dykes of war, and their fires burned in multitudes. [555] Even as in heaven about the gleaming moon the stars shine clear, when the air is windless, and forth to view appear all mountain peaks and high headlands and glades, and from heaven breaketh open the infinite air,1 and all stars are seen, and the shepherd joyeth in his heart; [560] even in such multitudes between the ships and the streams of Xanthus shone the fires that the Trojans kindled before the face of Ilios. A thousand fires were burning in the plain and by each sat fifty men in the glow of the blazing fire. And their horses, eating of white barley and spelt, [565] stood beside the cars and waited for fair-throned Dawn.

This is art. Not Sancho Panza's gags.

>>22098681
A cruel and crude old book.

Where’s Virgil? The Eclogues alone are better than anything any post-Roman save for maybe Dante ever wrote.

Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton or Goethe

I found Shakespeare separately because he was a dramatist

>>22098690
yeah, satire is often crude and cruel. or realistic, or didactical, or even moralistic. still NOT art. cervantes is not an artist like the other 4 OP posted.

>>22098716
It is a famous (on here) Nabakov quote.

>>22098719
yes, i knew.

I’ll say this again, where’s Pynchon?

>>22097493
At least one anon gets it.

Moses (Numbers basado)
David (Psalmist)
Solomon (Ecclesiastor)
John (forma de Patmos)
>>22094646
Nice.
>>22096173
Dangerously based.

>>22094609
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
KPMG
PwC

>>22094609
Maybe put Hölderlin instead of Goethe if you really want German representation there.

>>22099725
t. Heidneger
btw Novalis is better then Memerlin

Plato
Plotinus
Dante
Homer

>>22094738
Goethe is in a league with Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes but I prefer the other three too.

Shakespeare
Goethe
Homer
Whitman

My big four.

If we look at the moderns:

Kafka
Proust
Joyce
Beckett

I hate canons like that. Reminds me of pretentious Bloom.

>>22097283
Virgil was a honorary Catholic

why is no one saying hegel? hegel is everything in philosophy

>Homer
>Plato
>Aristotle
>That's it

>>22099760
>If we look at the moderns:
uh…pynchon?

>>22099789
yeah, literally everything
>because an infinite amount can be thought through such wide abstractions, only very little indeed can be thought in them; they are empty husks.

>>22099788
this.
>you were as one who leads through a dark track / holding the light behind - useless to you, / precious to those who followed at your back.

>Buddha
>Jesus
>Socrates
>Lao Tzu

ftfy

>>22094609
The Big 4 of /lit/
>the guenon shill
>the bell jar shill
>london anon
>me

shakespeare looks really cool and stylish in that painting

Montaigne
Montaigne
Montaigne
Montaigne

Joyce
Pynchon
Wallace
Snicket

>>22097608
Idk about the other two but Dante quite literally lumped himself with Homer

>>22100298
absolute mad lad in Canto 4 of Inferno wrote down his personal ranking:
1. Homer
2. Virgil
3. Horace
4. Ovid
5. Lucan
6. Himself

>>22100318
Dante never read Homer, so I don't know why he rates him so highly.

>>22096138
>nobody cares about muh siesta comedy books.
Except most of the canonical writers after him and anyone interested in western or European literature.
>lyricism, poetry, beauty is all that matters.
Cervantes evidently has all of that, if you can't see that's on you.

>>22094609
The big snore

The Four sons of HORUS

what an ugly picture

Aristotle
Augustine
Anselm
Aquinas

There are only three GOATs

>>22100318
>putting himself below Lucan, Ovid, Horace
such humility

>>22094609
I was gonna do a pleb erotic short story version of this but I couldn’t think of a fourth guy

Chaucer
Boccaccio
Abu Nuwas

>>22094609
Umm sweetie I think you mean
Rupi Kaur
Carol Ann Duffy
Sylvia Plath
Jack Kerouac

>>22101156
>has all of that
sure it does anon, sure it does

>>22094750
this but Homer last instead

>>22094609
This painting is German cope. Goethe's nowhere near the level of the other 3.

>>22102820
it was painted by a Croat

>>22094728
Because he is so far below their league?

>>22102164
Who is Carol Ann Duffy and why is she worthy of being listed with the other three?

Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Akhenaten
Zoroaster

Aristotle
Hegel
Marx
Zizek

>>22102820
Then who would you suggest as the fourth one smartass? Just so you know I'm going to ignore any and all French and British suggestions

>>22094609
Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Aquinas

>>22094609
Laozi
Zhuangzi
Liezi
Wenzi

>>22096089
Substitute Maistre for Marx and that's about right.

Feizi
Machiavelli
Hobbes
Schmitt
>>22104419
I'll take him too.

>>22104435
>Feizi
Based. The only Chinaman worth reading.