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Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:44:39 2017 No.10332960 [Reply] [Original]

Faust, the Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost. Which should I buy?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:46:54 2017 No.10332974 File: 36 KB, 328x500, god delusion.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:52:28 2017 No.10332989 >>10332974 edgy

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:56:14 2017 No.10333016 File: 933 KB, 2934x4868, dante-alighieri-the-divine-comedy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Best translation?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 16:57:51 2017 No.10333022 What languages do you know? If it's just English get paradife loft

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:08:26 2017 No.10333072 >>10332974 I thought this meme died some years ago

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:09:30 2017 No.10333080 >>10332960 Whichever's subject appeals more to you

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:11:09 2017 No.10333087 Divine Comedy

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:12:22 2017 No.10333094 >>10333022 This

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:12:33 2017 No.10333097 >>10332960 Paradise Lost, by far. Dante is dense as a motherfucker and Faust is a play. If you're interested in the man-god relationship Milton is it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:13:03 2017 No.10333099 >>10333016 in a single volume yes Hollander is the best verse translation (3 volumes) (Mandelbaum comes second) Singleton is the best prose translation (six volumes)

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 17:54:07 2017 No.10333298 Just finished Paradise Lost and it was amazing, so go with that OP. I didnt realize that PL was quoted so much, I was recognizing a bunch of lines.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 20:55:05 2017 No.10333897 >>10332960 Don Quixote

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 20:56:08 2017 No.10333903 >>10333022 >le translation meme

Anonymous Wed Nov 29 21:00:52 2017 No.10333926

>>10332960
Paradise Lost is incredible, Dante and Faust are practically required reading. You should absolutely read all three. I would start with PL as it is the easiest and shortest to read. Follow it up by reading some criticisms or essays on it. Then do Dante, then Faust.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 22:48:46 2017 No.10334383 >>10333903 It's not a meme for poetry

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 22:49:47 2017 No.10334390 I finished Paradise Lost for class and was thoroughly disappointed. Though part of that might be because my professor focused a lot on Eve and GENDER shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 22:51:36 2017 No.10334397 >>10332960 Divine Comedy. If you have to choose just one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 22:52:51 2017 No.10334400 Dante. Paradise Lost is boring as fuck. Its few passages of absolute beauty get totally lost in what a fucking drudge it is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 22:57:21 2017 No.10334414 desu Milton was a pretty fucking awful poet.

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