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ITT: Poets and authors who don't get enough respect around here

>> No.11769525

based popeposter

>> No.11769530

>love Pope's works
>it's a fucking slog to read through his works
I admire him for being able to write it, but holy shit does it just get tedious.

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Pope's near-contemporary Johnson also doesn't get enough respect on /lit/.

The English Enlightenment, in general, is a fantastic era of great writers and poets.

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>>11769530
>love Pope's works
>hate reading them tho

>> No.11769976

Pope was a dickhead who took the piss out of people he didn't like

Old time equivalent of a cyber bully

>> No.11769993

>>11769976
t. Colley Cibber

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>>11769515
Jospeh Roth

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I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

>> No.11770299

Thornton Wilder
Peter Matthiessen
James Dickey

>> No.11770313

Rodney Dangerfield

>> No.11770337

>>11769515
I can respect Pope for reading the Iliad and deciding that it should rhyme.

>> No.11770634

>>11770337
And he was right

>> No.11770641

>>11770299
I am the other Matthiessenanon, hello.

>> No.11770858

>>11769993
Cibber's Apology for his Life is actually quite good. Best when read in an old Everyman.