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Will it help me to appreciate literature more and look on it from a wider perspective?

>> No.21775988

>>21775979
Yes, Homer and Dante as well.

>> No.21775994

>>21775988
>Homer and Dante as well.
Thought about them as well. Are there any other equally crucial authors?

>> No.21775997

nah go the opposite way of reading what you feel like and THEN realise the importance of the bible and shakespeare and all the rest through them - then you will naturally see the significance of them. shakespeare feels much richer when you read loads of modern lit and then come to him and see how huge his influence is

>> No.21776000

The Greeks, The Bible, Vergil, Dante, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton.

>> No.21776111

>>21775994
I don't think so.
Bible and Homer are the essentials. You would loose A LOT of context without those two.
Bible and Homer is the baseline in my opinion.
If you want more read at least 1 opus magnum written in important European languages: Latin, Italian, German, English, Spanish, French and Russian.

>> No.21776140

>>21776000
Dante and Milton had much narrower influence than the rest. Dante marked a break, leading into literary renaissance, but his texts by themselves weren't read much outside of Italy. Milton was of minor importance outside of England, with the exception of romanticist period (e.g. Lermontov).

>> No.21776156

No it's not, only this retarded board thinks that you have to read iliad before harry potter

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>>21776140
>Dante and Milton had much narrower influence than the rest.
Both of them are less essential, than the Bible is.
Comedia and Lost Paradise are in the end just Bible fanfics.
>>21776156
>got filtered by the Iliad
Many such cases.
FIltered.

>> No.21776206

Learn fluent Attic Greek, Latin, Classical Chinese, Arabic, Provencal and Sanskrit or you're NGMI

>> No.21776280

>>21776000
Wasted get
>Homer
>Bible
>Shakespeare
>Melville
>F Gardner

>> No.21776310

>>21776191
>mention <book> just like an example
>"uh oh filtered by <book>"
you really are retarded

>> No.21776351

>>21776280
>>F Gardner
I will read this fag after all of previous authors just for the keks

>> No.21776501

>>21776310
So you liked Iliyad or what?

>> No.21776620

>>21776191
>section recommends two books on grammar
>"they each provide a [...] lens"

>> No.21776638

>>21775979
>>21775979
Read what you want nigga, you should be naturally attracted to reading the good stuff anyway, if you're not no amount of ordered reading will fix you
>>21776000
Start with the Greeks meme is why I have a 2 year overdue copy of the Iliad on my shelf

>> No.21776666

>>21775979
No, they're seperate for a reason

>> No.21776685

>>21776666
>Says you don't need to read the bible to appreciate the classics
>Gets the evil number magnified

>> No.21776686
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21776686

>read the greeks
>can't remember anyone's name
>see a reference to the greeks in a book i'm reading
>can't remember what it's referencing
Epic. That was 3 years well fucking spent.

>> No.21776829

>>21775979
Exemplaris Excomvnicationis

>> No.21776849

>>21775979
Do you need to? No.
Would your reading experience be enhanced by reading the classics first? Yes.

>> No.21778217

>>21776686
Brainlets ngmi

>> No.21778277

No, I'm not reading greeks. I'm not going to spend years on something outdated. I will not force myself to read works that I don't enjoy. I will read the summaries and it will be enough. The greeeks would never bother with reading thousands of pages of summerian texts themselves. No, thanks, not in the 21st century.

>> No.21778279

>>21776638
>Read what you want nigga, you should be naturally attracted to reading the good stuff anyway
There you have it folks, all the advice you need. I read the bible when I feel like it, I read Joyce when I feel like it, I read Shakespeare when I feel like it.

>> No.21778313

>>21775997
nah go the opposite way of reading what you feel like and THEN realise the importance of the bible and harvey weinstein and all the rest through them - then you will naturally see the significance of them. harvey weinstein feels much richer when you read loads of modern lit and then come to him and see how huge his influence is

FFS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A MOVIE GUY

>> No.21778528

>>21775997
based

>> No.21778609

Nah, you really really have to start with the mesopotamians or you will be lacking context

>> No.21778615

>>21775979
Yes but you won't like them enough in the beginning and it'll turn you off from the rest. Just start with something easy and keep going like that until you can earnestly say to yourself that you're enjoying it and then go back to the foundations which underlay it.