/lit/ - Literature

Bunch of slack-jawed faggots in here

>>23412076
The Count of Monte Cristo and Walden definitely convey this vitality for some reason. Plato and the Romantic poets too, like Wordsworth.

>>23412076
I want to get into Whitman. I can't. Almost all other poetry I can pick up, find the rhythm, grok.

I'm new to poetry, just like what I read (Kipling, Cohen, Homer, Baudelaire).

What am I missing? Any advice?

>>23412197
that's a great reaction pic

>>23412076
A recent book I read felt like this, A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney about his 2 year son old being diagnosed with cancer and dying. Fucking heart ripping, but hopeful, and full of love, and joy.

>>23412287
>What am I missing?
Faustian spirit sorry.

>>23412076
Cato if you like Whitman. If we want to add other things than poetry definitely Hemingway. Especially his short stories.
I'll add medieval epics such as Parzifal by Wolfram von Eschenbach.

A rebours by Huysman. That's the yellow book Oscar Wilde called the most dangerous book in the world.

>>23412076
>high test lit
Oxymoron

Great fucking thread. Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography and Dr. Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Self help by Samuel Smiles

>>23412287
The Romantics, especially Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, and the lyric poems of Blake. Also Pope, Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton are good poets to start with.

>>23412350
>and the lyric poems of Blake.
Interesting, I forgot to list him. But I'll check out the others.

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>>23412287
Start with Song of Myself. You'll find a lot of biblical, spoken-word like cadence in it, which is largely the same style Cormac McCarthy writes his prose in.

>>23412076
I’ve got this from some of Nietzsche’s best works, The Gay Science is a good and accessible one, despite that I don’t fully agree with all of his worldview, and despite all the yap about “LOL DUDE HE WAS ACTUALLY A SICKLY LOSER”. Thus Spake Zarathustra is also awesome if you’re into the even more poetic and aphoristic of Nietzsche’s works.

Melville’s Moby Dick maybe. And probably the earlier ones I admittedly haven’t read also about his whaling/sea travels/stays with indigenous tribal islanders (Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket). Although this is more about a sort of rugged masculinity and actually having lived an exciting life than it necessarily is super life-affirming (he could tend towards the pessimistic and gloomy at times).

Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. Definitely a book that “flows over from love of life and will to live.”

Holy fuck this thread makes me happy. I'll say Hyperion from Hölderlin.

'Sun And Steel' by Yukio Mishima, anon.

Also bumping because I want your recommendations, anons.

William Law and Ascent of Mount Carmel for theology. I guess Robert E. Howard because he basically stomped out an entire genre but I haven't read him.
I have a collection of Conan stories lying around is it worth to dive in?

>>23414038
Good rec. You can add In stahlgewittern.

xenophon's anabasis, moby dick, the faerie queene, saga of the volsungs and the longships.

>>23414056
>the faerie queene
Great rec

How has no one said Beowulf yet

>>23412076
I haven't read nearly as much aa I would have liked to but I did feel immensely positive and a strong will to live after reading The Odyssey.

>>23414073
Because it so chistcucked it's impossible to read.
And discussing Beowulf brings out idiotic anglos claiming Beowulf for England, nevermind that it takes place in Danmark and one of Beowulfs great deeds was swimming from Norway to Finland.

>>23414052
Conan is good, Solomon Kane is better.