/lit/ - Literature

Are you NEET? If you're working or studying I don't see this happening but maybe you're a much better reader than I am.

My goal is to read things i enjoy

>>8878248
you forgot the bible

>>8878248
Remove the women, fags, spics, and Jews

Read Mein Kampf and Schopenhauer's 'On Women' instead. Also the Bell Curve

>introduction to the history of philosophy
>popol vuh
>shakespeares imagery & what it tells us
>antony and cleopatra
>romeo and juliet
>don juan
>count of monte cristo
>re joyce

out

in


>five dialogues of plato
>pride and prejudice
>david copperfield
>henry iv pts 1 + 2
>middlemarch
>moby-dick
>wordsworth poems
>king james bible

>>8878260
No, I don't expect to finish this year.

>>8878248
mahabharata or at least baghdad gita

>>8878271
The Bell Curve is unironically good though

>>8878248
replace Don Juan with Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Romeo and Juliet with As You Like It or The Tempest.
you should also definitely read Petrarch's Canzoniere, The Canterbury Tales, Moby Dick, Lyrical Ballads, the Oresteia and at least the first 3 books of the Faerie Queen.
You could also possibly include Tristram Shandy, The Golden Ass and The Lusiads but these are perhaps not as important as the others.

>>8878309
Poo in loo shit doesn't belong in the Western Canon

>>8878260
also this guy
>>8878277
is pretty much right in what you should remove and i agree that replacing Antony and Cleopatra with the Henrician Cycle (Richard II, Henry IV parts 1+2 and Henry V) would be a good idea

>>8878277
>out Introduction to the history of philosophy
So can I just jump into plato with no introduction to those that came before him?

>popol vuh
I'm from Mexico, so I'll probably keep this one

>Shakeaspears imagery & Re Joyce
Do you know of better intros in orer to appreciate the works better?

Thanks for the advice anon. The only one I won't include is the bible. I know its probably the most important book ever but my catholic childhood gave me a good grasp on it's contents and seems like to much at the moment. Saving it for later.

>>8878248
Add
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
the poems of John Donne
the poems of Walt Whitman
the poems of Emily Dickinson

>>8878248
>Gilgamesh
>Western Canon
huh?

>>8878344
plato is the easiest and most fun to read serious philosophy there is

>>8878248
>Gilgames
No, this isn't Western canon. It isn't even relevant. Greeks weren't aware of Gilgamesh. Romans weren't aware of Gilgamesh. Medievals weren't aware of Gilgamesh. Reneissance men weren't aware of Gilgamesh. Most of the modern history hasn't been aware of Gilgamesh.

It's an interesting piece of literature, but it isn't relevant to the Western canon at all, unless you are saying it is important because it influenced Bible, by which argument you could include practically everything written as it has influenced something in one way or another.

>>8878248
>No Oresteia.
Oh dear.

>>8878361
>Greeks weren't aware of Gilgamesh.
Wrong. Gilgamesh almost certainly influenced the storytelling tradition of Homer, and he may have even heard/read it.

>>8878366
>Oh dear.
Are you an old lady?

>>8878350
>>8878361

Yes, I know it isn't part of the Western Canon. But I think it's important to read it anyway. I'm actually halfway through it and I find it fun and comfy.

>>8878368
Nah, he hadn't read shit, Gilgamesh wasn't even widely read around that time. Homer came around four hundred, five hundred years later than the "standard" version and by the time of Homer Akkadian was already losing its prominence.

>>8878382
>Gilgamesh wasn't even widely read around that time.
Source?
>Homer came around four hundred, five hundred years later than the "standard" version and by the time of Homer Akkadian was already losing its prominence.
Well nobody really knows anything about Homer, for all we know he could have been a griot-type figure who knew many stories, including Gilgamesh, and it probably influenced Greek culture to some extent. Gilgamesh and Homer's epics share too many similarities to ignore

OP, please please please add the Oresteia here.

>>8878397
Do you actually have source that it was lmao?

>probably
That's all just guess works. It's more likely than not that it didn't influence shit.

>Two pieces that tell a completely different story and are of completely different angles culturally and have different points are very similar
Not really.

Add Orlando Furioso and The Decameron. They're essential medieval works that have influenced literature for ages even though /lit/ doesn't really talk about them too often.

>>8878366
>>8878400
I will. I promise Anons

>>8878424
Please don't forget it, your Excellency!

>>8878423
If you had to pick one?

>>8878371
The hippest old lady in town.

>>88784748
Oof you'll be missing out, but if I had to pick one, I guess it would be Decameron because it's one of the first steps that literature takes into realism.

Orlando Furioso is where we get a lot of our concepts of chivalry from, but you can get that elsewhere like>>8878319's Faerie Queen so you can see what it is that Quixote is ultimately deconstructing when you get around to reading it.

>>8878507
Meant for>>8878474

>>8878248
Edith Hamilton is a waste if you're planning on reading all the works it covers anyway. Read Hesiod instead.

>>8878248
The Mahabharata, Analects, Daodejing, Classic of Poetry, and the Shahnameh.

>>8878580
WESTERN CANON

>>8878574
Does Hamilton's Mythology offer anything more than can be gleaned from wikipedia?

>>8878759
No.

reading a bunch of old books by dead white men just because other dead white men think they're special won't benefit you
consider utilizing your time better OP

>>8878848
this
read harry potter instead

>>8878759
No, it's just a summary of the works OP already listed, packaged together in one place.

>>8878322
>>8878271
>this guy

Are you the same cunt that's been shitposting in practically every thread on /lit/ today?

>>8878905
>people who make racist posts are le evil frogshitposters!

>>8878271
can't tell the difference between retardation and trolling anymore

>>8878905
>>8878924
But it's true, there's been an unreasonable amount of pol-tier shitposting and breaking conversations today
Have some people carried a raid or is it just a single guy?

>>8878281
>Antony and cleopatra
>out
Fight me faglord

>>8878955
There has been pol-tier shitposting because redditards get buttmad at it. It's fun to trigger you nu-anons

Also, protip: /pol/ never raids other boards.

>>8878941
maybe you should go to reddit then

>>8878968
>The board is of such low quality that it's even better to go to reddit

>>8878968
>>8878963
>>8878924
>nu nu nu nu
>reddit reddit reddit reddit

You have to go back

>>8878971
Yes of course, now go
>>8878974

>>8878974
ebin meme, now leave you cuck

>>8878978
>has zero interest in literature
>there is a board wholly dedicated to shitposting
>Decides to shitpost on literature board

>>8878986
>implying I don't have an interest in literature
>using le Pepe maymay while complaining about shitposters

>>8878994
>le evil frogposters boo-hoo

R A U S
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>>8878999
cuck

>>8879000
Not an argument

>>8878263
Im happy for you.

>>8878248

>2.Mythology (Edith Hamilton)

yikes. no. there are far better works on comparative mythology. avoid.

>>8879000
>>8878999
checked

ps. clever reverse psychology mate

>>8879015
Examples anon?

>>8878382
If you think Homer read anything you're a dipshit

>>8878263
>he doesn't enjoy learning

Truly deplorable to be quite honest kin.

>>8878263
>implying classics aren't enjoyable
Plebbb

>>8878248
needs more medieval texts
Recommend either the collected works of Cretien de Troyes or of Thomas Mallory

>>8878248
First of all, very solid list. Basically all of the works there are masterpieces. That said:

Why are you reading an introduction to the history of philosophy and then almost no primary texts at all? The Republic is not a great start either.

I enjoyed Edith Hamilton's Mythology, but you'll get more from Theogony along with your ancient greek list.

Too much Shakespeare in drama IMO. Add some Ibsen and Calderón de la Barca instead to keep some variety. Watch the plays if you can instead of reading them.

From the top of my head you're also missing Borges, Hamsun, Woolf, Baudelaire, Dostoievski, Whitman...

>western canon
>no Icelandic Sagas

Would reccomend either Egils saga or Njals saga

>western canon
>no finnic epics

Would recommend either Kalevala or Kalevipoeg

I didn't know the Rimbaud meme had gone this far.

>>8878382
>>8878406
Nobody knows if Homer was an actual person. Gilgamesh influenced the Greeks by shaping the oral storytelling tradition which preceded Homer.

OP, read Candide as well. Easy, easy read.

>>8878248
Where the fuck is The Bible? It's one of the most important books of all time in the entire planet.

You had better read the faerie queene (Longman recommended)

>>8878248
Remove Byron. Lord Byron really contributed nothing to poetry or the English language.

>>8880311
Thanks

>Why are you reading an introduction to the history of philosophy
Well as you can see I already have a lot of things to read, I wanted something faster. But what would you recomend instead and how would you start with plato.

>I enjoyed Edith Hamilton's Mythology...
Thanks, i'll check it out

>From the top of my head you're also missing Borges...
I already read most them. But I'll add Woolf, never read anything by her.