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ITT: Better-than-Shakespeare core

>> No.11991597

>>11991593
Possibly Joyce, but really there are no comparisons.

>> No.11991621

>>11991597
Pope is is more conscious than Joyce

>> No.11991622
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11991622

>shakespeare btfo with details

>> No.11991627

>>11991622
Can't compare to Pope though

>> No.11991632

>>11991622
>got triggered by Shakes because he's popular
>"it was propaganda that made him famous guys"

>> No.11991669

>>11991621
Joyce is more unconscious than Pope. Is one polarity necessarily more privileged than the other?

>> No.11991718

>>11991669
Yes since I'm conscious when I read

>> No.11991991

>>11991718
pleb

>> No.11992004

>>11991593
literally pick any French poet from 18th - 20th century

>> No.11992010

>>11992004
Haha

>> No.11992020

>>11991991
>reading unconsciously
Is it possible to demonstrate how much of a pseud you are any clearer, by means other than am outright declaration?

>> No.11992040

>>11991593
Stop spamming Pope, jesus christ.

>> No.11992249

>>11991593
I've read Rape of the Lock, Pastorals, all his Homer, Essay on Criticism, Temple of Fame, Messiah, Windsor Forest. What are his best poems I haven't read, and why? Or if one of the ones I've read is your favourite please also explain why.

>> No.11992311

>>11992040
No criticism? Awkward...
>>11992249
Dunciad with good fitness. It's basically Hamlet in scope but with soul

>> No.11992337

>>11992311
Yikes

>> No.11992352

>>11992311
Thank you. I've been struggling with Prometheus Unbound, maybe I'll try some Pope instead.

>> No.11992362

Goethe, Cervantes, Poe, Stein, Doderer - that's it

>> No.11992452

>>11992362
>Poe
I sure hope you meant Pope, otherwise... well suffice to say I'd cringe

>> No.11992643

>>11992249
Eloisa to Aberlard
And sure, if fate some future bard shall join
In sad similitude of griefs to mine,
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more;
Such if there be, who loves so long, so well;
Let him our sad, our tender story tell;
The well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost;
He best can paint 'em, who shall feel 'em most.