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Did Dante surpass his mentor, Virgil, as a poet? Is the Divine Comedy a greater epic than the Aeneid?

>> No.15939846

>>15939836
A thousand times yes.

>> No.15939868

>it’s a competition
Literature is not for you

>> No.15939878
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>>15939868
>The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

>> No.15939883

>>15939878
>Faulkner

>> No.15939888

>>15939836
Yes and yes.

>> No.15939893

>>15939883
Yes.

>> No.15939910

>>15939893
Yes, stay under Steinbeck

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>>15939878
> I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

>> No.15939959

only someone who hasn't read georgics could think that

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>>15939959
Based. The pastoral is peak /lit/.

>> No.15940072

>>15940046
The Eclogues are Virgil's pastoral poems, not the Georgics.

>> No.15940092

>>15939878
he's American, it's in their blood

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>>15940046

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>>15940072
oops

>> No.15940148

Just look at the pinned welcome thread.

>> No.15940182

>>15940134
Still very good, though. And I do love pastoral poetry, I wish /lit/ would talk more about it, it's a very underrated but intensely powerful genre of poetry.

>> No.15940206

>>15940113
kek, very apt

>> No.15940241

>>15940182
As do I. I feel drawn to the ideal that they represent. Some of my favs are Arcadia by Sannazaro or La Galatea by Cervantes. Which are yours?

>> No.15940696

>>15939836
Virgil is the most perfect poet to have ever existed, so I don't think Dante surpassd him as a poet but the Divine Comedy is certainly better than the Aeneid.