/lit/ - Literature

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read, write, read, write, read, write

I'm too lazy to read your post, but I feel like pointing out that Introduction to Philosophy is shit and The Modern World: Global History since 1760 is great

>>3423262

>on /lit/
>Too lazy to read post

Stop encouraging their viral spam

>>3423318
I got bored halfway though when he was explaining me his life story

>>3423262
It's too early to talk about the Intro to Philo, but the Modern World one really it great

>tfw Zelikow ends each lecture with that fucking smile.

>>3423257
The best way to learn to write and read poetry is to just read widely and read poetry.

Try John Ashbery, Ted Hudges, Sylvia Plath, Ogden Nash (easiest), Edgar Allen Poe, Allen Ginsberg (for the edgy), Keats, Robert Frost, Wordsworth, Auden, ee cummings (high level word mindfuck), Walt Whitman, Charles Bukowski etc.

Or just get one of those collection of Eng Lit verses.

>>3423332
Well the Modern World got interesting as early as the 2nd lecture, fist week. The whole 1st week of intro to philosophy is horrible.

I was tsundere for his smile at first, but now I came to love it

>>3423322
>implying this is spam
wut

at least it is much more on topic than most /lit/ posts

>>3423348
>fist week

>>3423363
r u 12?

>>3423365
NO FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>3423360
Actually it has absolutely nothing ontopic about it

>>3423346

I've read into most of them... Ginsberg, Berryman, and O'Hara are my favorites. But I feel like there's so much more to be gained that I can't get from just reading. Though my work has come a LONG way since I've been indulging myself in good poetry.

>>3423372
https://www.coursera.org/course/mornpoetry

this i a course I know a few other e/lit/ists took besides me

>>3423425
>next courses start on september 13th
Why can't I just access the current one? It's not like I want a diploma or anything. Fucking coursera.

>>3423458
>https://www.coursera.org/course/mernpoetry
I think archive access is determined by the university, so it is UPenn's fault if they deny access to the older version (Princeton does this too and it is fucking annoying). Whatever, you can still check out other ones

>>3423458

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lt=PLh9mgdi4rNewA25FVJ-lawQ-yr-alFz

Love you bro. Remember that

>>3423595
Thank you so much. I love you too.

>>3423262
seconded, the history one is great even if you already know your shit, the philo one is a disaster

anyone got "A History of the World since 1300" archived somewhere? would love to check it out

>>3423458
They said you could only access it for like two weeks after the class ended.

>>3423346
This is good. But you will never understand poetry unless you study form, rhyme and metre.

Anyone who says otherwise is just stupid.

You have to "study" the poetry you "read".

>>3423377
Most likely because you read shit poets. You are able to grasp them because they are not writing poetry.

>>3423595
Holy fuck. Yale courses, they are the best. Thank you for this.

>>3424078
Also notice how there isn't a single beat poet in that bunch.

Unrelated to the question, but I read some of Vladmir Nabakov's poetry the other day at the library and it was pretty great. I never hear him talked about as a poet though, why is that? It just because his poetry is overshadowed by his novels?

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-3#syllabus

Would someone help me dig out the class syllabus, so we can have a proper study group?

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>>3424077

That's a matter of taste. They are far from shit.

>>3424150
HURR DURR