/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11734258]

Why doesn't this board talk about him as much as, say, Milton (whom he brilliantly satirized)?

[Anonymous No.11734272]

Is your life so devoid of meaning that you think that forcing a meme in an obscure literature board on the internet is some kind of achievement?

[Anonymous No.11734284]

we only talk about redpilled authors like evola, land, guenon, savannah brown, kevin mcdonald, hitler, and deleuze here

[Anonymous No.11734285]

I like Popeanon. Better one of England's greatest poets gets forced than more YA or Sam Harris shit.
We don't talk about him much because we haven't read him much, and because he doesn't fit into the romantic notion of poetry so well

[Anonymous No.11734289]

>>11734272
Dude it took you more time to type all that out than it took for me to make this thread. If I get a few anons to discover Pope I'll consider that an achievment.

[Anonymous No.11734295]

Reading Pope well requires understanding of meter, classical form, and imagery (among others), which is beyond nu-/lit/'s collective understanding of "I liked the pretty words"

[Anonymous No.11734298]

Pope is banter but nobody talks about Milton either lad (apart from namedropping)

[Anonymous No.11734321]

>>11734289

OK, fair enough. However, the problem with Pope is that, in spite of his brilliance with metric and rhyme he was much of his own age (when it comes down to his topics and subject matter). People who are interested in the inner beauty of poetry, it’s symmetry – like the people who admire the beauty and elegance of mathematical theorems for their own sake – are going to dig Pope, but they will unfortunately be very few.

But he has some wonderful moments:

Let Sporus tremble –"What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys,

(…)

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;

[Anonymous No.11734348]

iktf bro

[Anonymous No.11734400]

I haven't read much of Pope himself, but I have read Johnson's Life of Pope, and it gave me a strong appreciation of him.

[Anonymous No.11734413]

Is Dryden worth reading

[Anonymous No.11734542]

>>11734258
Satirists are lesser writers

[Anonymous No.11734842]

I've only read his translation of the Iliad

[Anonymous No.11734877]

>>11734258
/lit/ doesn't even talk about Milton that much.