/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19303073]

do you like byron's letters?

[Anonymous No.19303598]

the o is pretty neat, yes

[Anonymous No.19303604]

>>19303073
>we will never read his diary
Why live?

[Anonymous No.19304470]

>>19303073
His Alps journals are pretty cool too. Byron as a whole is super underrated as a prose writer, but since he didn’t write novels the masses wouldn’t ever get it. Compared with his contemporaries he just feels really modern too, even if he’s not really the best poet out of the romantics. He also didn’t show the same dull narrow mindedness as most Englishmen of his time, just look at his exploits in Greece for example

[Anonymous No.19304521]

>>19304470
Who was the best romantic poet? I think it was byron.

[Anonymous No.19304543]

>>19304521
Normie opinion: Keats
Jokerfied opinion: Coleridge

[Anonymous No.19304628]

>>19304543
Coleridge is okay as far as classic romantic poets go. I prefer really every other big name except wordsworth. His poetry is pretty pathetic and byron btfos him in english bards and scotch reviewers

[Anonymous No.19304643]

>>19304628
At least his ballads are pretty pathetic* i haven't read the prelude.

[Anonymous No.19304653]

>>19304521
Yeah normie response but it was definitely Keats. I have no doubt that Shelley and Coleridge might have been the most intelligent of the bunch, but like 90% of what they wrote is quite obscure. I firmly believe as long as the English language exists Keats’s poems will always be masterpieces of poetry. Also Byron should have been a German poet instead. Don’t ask me why.

[Anonymous No.19304697]

>>19304521
SOVL: Byron
soulless: Shelley

[Anonymous No.19304705]

>>19303073
fuck this idiot, his take on milton sucks ass

[Anonymous No.19305686]

>>19304628
Coleridge wrote some absolute bangers but the trouble is he quit poetry to become a literary critic and philosopher, and he wasn't particularly good at the latter. His takes on Shakespeare are neat, though.