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12007165 No.12007165 [Reply] [Original]

Is it too late to revive him?

>> No.12007189

how long are you gonna keep this up? i never thought you'd last this long. your persistance is awe inspiring

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>> No.12007822

>>12007189
Until An Essay on Criticism is mandatory reading for every high schooler in America

>> No.12008569

>>12007189
Popeanon is the hardy stock that is the core of /lit/s greatness

>> No.12009768

Do you guys like Pope?

>> No.12009778

>>12009768
I do.

>> No.12009786

>>12009768
Pretty sure everyone who has read him likes him. Pope has the problem that not enough people have read him, and those who have are all gentlemen scholars who like him. To get a discussion going on /lit/ there needs to be a critical mass of posters who have read the writer in question, and crucially enough morons who can post stupid opinions. Until Pope is read by morons, there will never be real discussion about him.

>> No.12009789

>>12007165
He’s been dead for centuries anon

>> No.12010034

>>12009786
That's the mission of a Popeposter
To spread the good word to the unwashed masses

>> No.12011417

>>12010034
such a good lad

>> No.12011424

alexander popenis

>> No.12011443

>>12007822
I started reading this and what exactly do you like so much about it?

>> No.12011656

Heroic couplets shit A SHIT.
Rhyme is fine but having a long narrative made up entirely of perfect couplets is too much of a contrivance. As a result Pope says absolutely nothing deep in his Homer nor in his own The Rape of The Lock and The Dunciad because he quite literally cannot.
His Pastorals and Epistles are decent though, and only that - DECENT.

>> No.12011663

>>12007165
too little, too late

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>>12011656
>Rhyme is fine but having a long narrative made up entirely of perfect couplets is too much of a contrivance.
*shows you how it's done*

>> No.12011683

>>12011656
This. It also makes them all sound the same, Pope is the most dull and unimaginative poet ever. Why can't popeposter use his energy to shill people who deserve it better? Like Laurence Sterne for example, the man was doing post-irony before modernist trash.

>> No.12011730

>>12011676
i finally changed my mind on this guy. I hated him forever but now I realize I was but a pleb that didn't see his artfulness

I used to talk to my brother about him and he'd show me passages that he loved and I just did not get it at all, but for some reason I get it now.