[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 16 KB, 500x461, i-know-that-feel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4052936 No.4052936 [Reply] [Original]

Where do I start?

>> No.4052937

>>4052936
Read the sticky.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>> No.4052949

>>4052936
>Where do I start?
Wages Pr...

Nah seriously:
Plays
Poems
Novels
Essays
Letters
Monographs ("academic" books)
Journals ("academic")
Journals ("literary")
Magazines
Newspapers / News aggregations

what kind of thing do you want to start with?

>> No.4052976

>>4052949
Read a lot of entry-level poetry so far, nothing much though
Can you recommend any god-tier poets?

>> No.4052994

Beowulf, The Odessy, and Gilgamesh are the best way to start. Go from the earliest stories up to modern times. Once you define your own tastes and pick and choose what you wanna read it wont take you long to work your way up to more recent books.

>> No.4052999

>>4052976
I like Wazyk's poem for adults
I like Mayakovsky
I like Plath's poems

>> No.4053002

>>4052976
Entry-level poetry usually is high-tier stuff. It's the poems that have been deemed good enough to put in anthologies.

>> No.4053003

>>4052976

Titans:
Dante, even in translation
Milton (good luck)
Shakespeare
Marvell
Keats
Blake
Dickinson
Wallace Stevens

Wildcard picks:
Christina Rossetti
John Crowe Ransom
Randall Jarrell

Overrated bores:
Whitman
Eliot
Pound

>> No.4053005
File: 424 KB, 259x169, communistlol.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4053005

>>4052999
>Wazyk's poem for adults
>Mayakovsky

>> No.4053006

stirner

bc then you can be a part of club stirner

aka cool kids club

and thats exciting isnt it

>> No.4053007

>>4053003
No Yeats?

>> No.4053010

>>4053007
yeah that is an oversight

>> No.4053031

>>4053003

No Donne?

>> No.4053032

>>4053005
Check the name field. Central and Eastern european political poetry are underrated by Western lyricism obsessed pretards.

>> No.4053036

>>4053032

>that one try hard hipster going through his eastern block phase

there's always one of you silly fuckers around

>> No.4053039

>>4053032
oh fuck it, have some pre-Marx (from a cartoonist):
And did those feet in ancient time.
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land
--"Would to God that all the Lord's people were Prophets"