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13247434 No.13247434 [Reply] [Original]

What are your thoughs on Novalis? I was recommended "Hymns to the night", what should I expect?

>> No.13247436

>>13247434
Someone post the pasta

>> No.13247437

>>13247436
I guess I'm missing some /lit/ meme. My bad.

>> No.13247462

Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

>> No.13247524

>>13247462
I'm sure almost noone on here would pass this test.

>> No.13247644

>>13247434
Interested in this guy, as well as the Schlegel bros and other Athenaeumites (on which, Blanchot's essay The Athenaeum is very good). Anyone read Heinrich von Ofterdingen?

>> No.13249379

>>13247644
I read it recently in German. Such a shame he couldn't finish it.
Very aesthetically pleasant and offers good insight into the soul. Felt so connected to it in a couple passages that I cried.

>> No.13249385

>>13247524
not since you zoomers invaded

>> No.13249395

>>13247462
>>13247462
Can someone finally correct the your in "your rarely read poetry"?
Also I miss Novalis posting

>> No.13249407

>>13247437
it's not your fault, after all we were all fresh off the boat from reddit at one time or another.

>> No.13249797

>>13247434
Hymns to the night is one of my favorite set of poems ever

>> No.13251548

>>13247434

The likes of Novalis only grace this earth every few hundred years or so.

>> No.13251581

>>13247434
great poems, you won't waste your time reading Novalis

>> No.13252645

>>13247434
he worked in a salt mine

>> No.13253176
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13253176

>>13251548
Indeed
https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19240928p01.html