Overrated Hacks

[Anonymous No.21905981]

Post all overrated hacks of literature that you can skip reading.

[Anonymous No.21905999]

>>21905981
Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca, Thucydides, Marcus Aurelius, all of the authors of The New Testament besides St. Matthew, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Laurence Sterne, Edgar Alan Poe.

[Anonymous No.21906005]

>>21905981

[Anonymous No.21906009]

i am never reading ANY of the authors mentioned itt. thanks for the heads up bros.

[Anonymous No.21906011]

Sappho
Beowulf poet
Ben Jonson
The author of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Alexander Po(o)pe
Robert Burns
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samuel Coleridge
Most of William Blake (Milton is good, the rest is overrated trash)

[Anonymous No.21906022]

>>21905981

[Anonymous No.21906036]

These two.

[Anonymous No.21906037]

>>21905981
Everyone born before me and anyone who isn't me

[Anonymous No.21906042]

>>21905999
>lists all relevant philosophers besides german ones
>thereby suggesting to read someone like kant without reading Aristotle, Plato and Thomas Aquinas
Germs are truly a unique bunch. At least you didn’t mention Hume

[Anonymous No.21906087]

>>21906042
Schopenhauer, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Schlegel, Herder, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Marx, Engels, Husserl, Stirner, Hitler, and Spengler are hacks. Kant, Mainlander, Novalis, Spinoza and Heidegger are OK.

[Anonymous No.21906091]

>>21906087
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Leibniz is also OK.

[Anonymous No.21906230]

>>21905981
Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Arrian, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Spencer, Wyatt, Sidney, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentjier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Anderson, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Pinter, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xingjian, Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, de Man, Kristeva, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Schmidt, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

[Anonymous No.21906235]

The author(s) of Gilgamesh, the author(s) of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the authors of the Holy Bible, the authors of the Apocrypha, the authors of Pirke Aboth, Vyasa, Valmiki, Homer, Hesiod, Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Plato, Aristotle, Menander, Longinus, Callimachus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Aesop, Lucian, Plautus, Terence, Lucretius, Cicero, Horace, Persius, Catullus, Virgil, Lucan, Ovid, Juvenal, Martial, Seneca, Petronius, Apuleius, Saint Augustine, Muhammad, the authors of One Thousand and One Nights, the author(s) of the Poetic Edda, Snorri Sturluson, the author(s) of the Nibelungenlied, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Chrétien de Troyes, the author(s) of Beowulf, the author(s) of The Poem of the Cid, Christine de Pisan, Diego de San Pedro, Dante, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Baldassare Castiglione, Gaspara Stampa, Giorgio Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, Torquato Tasso, Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, Giambattista Vico, Carlo Goldoni, Vittorio Alfieri, Luís de Camões, António Ferreira, Jorge Manrique, Fernando de Rojas, the author of Lazarillo de Tormes, Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Luis de Góngora, Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory, William Dunbar, John Skelton, Thomas More, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, Henry Vaughan, John Wilmot, Richard Crashaw, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Chapman, John Ford, John Marston, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Cyril Tourneur, Philip Massinger, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, John Milton, John Aubrey, Jeremy Taylor, Samuel Butler (Hudibras), John Dryden, Thomas Otway, William Congreve, Jonathan Swift, George Etherege, Alexander Pope, John Gay, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, Maurice Morgann, William Collins, Thomas Gray, George Farquhar, William Wycherley, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinslay Sheridan, William Cowper, George Crabbe, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jean Froissart, the author(s) of The Song of Roland, François Villon, Michel de Montaigne, François Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Joachim du Bellay, Maurice Scève, Pierre de Ronsard, Philippe de Commines, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Robert Garnier, Pierre Corneille, François de La Rochefoucauld,

[Anonymous No.21906238]

Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, Blaise Pascal, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Jean Racine, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Antoine François Prévost, Madame de La Fayette, Nicolas Chamfort, Denis Diderot, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Erasmus, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Gotthold Lessing, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni, Giacomo Leopardi, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Verga, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, Leopoldo Alas, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Benjamin Constant, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Tristan Corbière, Jules Laforgue, Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Lamb, Maria Edgeworth, John Galt, Elizabeth Gaskell, James Hogg, Charles Maturin, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Clare, John Keats, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, George Darley, Thomas Hood, Thomas Wade, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Love Peacock, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Edward FitzGerald, John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, Anthony Trollope, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, George Gissing, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Meredith, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, Robert Bridges, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Samuel Butler (Erewhon), William Schwenck Gilbert, Wilkie Collins, Coventry Patmore, James Thomson (B.V.), Oscar Wilde, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Morris, Bram Stoker, George MacDonald, Novalis, the Brothers Grimm, Eduard Mörike, Theodor Storm, Gottfried Keller, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Jeremias Gotthelf, Adalbert Stifter, Friedrich Schlegel, Georg Büchner, Heinrich Heine, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Fontane, Stefan George, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Sergey Aksakov, Alexander Herzen, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Leskov, Alexander Ostrovsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Alexander Blok, Anton Chekhov, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Jones Very, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Henry Dana (Jr.), Frederick Douglass, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

[Anonymous No.21906242]

Sidney Lanier, Francis Parkman, Henry Adams, Ambrose Bierce, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Harold Frederic, Mark Twain, William James, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Trumbull Stickney, Luigi Pirandello, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Dino Campana, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, Salvatore Quasimodo, Tommaso Landolfi, Leonardo Sciascia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Italo Svevo, Giorgio Bassani, Natalia Ginzburg, Elio Vittorini, Alberto Moravia, Andrea Zanzotto, Italo Calvino, Antonio Porta, Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Miguel Hernández, Blas de Otero, Camilo José Cela, Juan Goytisolo, Carles Riba, Josep Vicenç Foix, Joan Perucho, Mercè Rodoreda, Pere Gimferrer, Salvador Espriu, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge de Sena, José Saramago, José Cardoso Pires, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Eugénio de Andrade, Anatole France, Alain-Fournier, Marcel Proust, André Gide, Colette, Georges Bataille, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, René Daumal, Jean Genet, Jean Giraudoux, Alfred Jarry, Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Paul Valéry, René Char, Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon, Jean Giono, Michel Leiris, Raymond Radiguet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Henri Michaux, Edmond Jabès, Saint-John Perse, Pierre Reverdy, Tristan Tzara, Max Jacob, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Francis Ponge, Jacaues Prévert, Philippe Jaccottet, Charles Péguy, Benjamin Péret, André Malraux, François Mauriac, Jean Anouilh, Eugène Ionesco, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Klossowski, Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Robert Pinget, Michel Tournier, Marguerite Yourcenar, Jean Follain, Yves Bonnefoy, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge, Seán O'Casey, George Douglas Brown, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Edward Housman, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Ronald Firbank, Ford Madox Ford, William Somerset Maugham, John Cowper Powys, Saki, Herbert George Wells, David Lindsay, Arnold Bennett, Walter de la Mare, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Robert Graves, Edwin Muir, David Jones, John Galsworthy, Edward Morgan Forster, Frank O'Connor, David Herbert Richards Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, James Gordon Farrell, Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Burgess, Gerald Basil Edwards, Iris Murdoch, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, Norman Douglas, Aldous Huxley, Lawrence Durrell, William Golding, Doris Lessing, Mervyn Peake, Wystan Hugh Auden, Roy Fuller, Gavin Ewart, Basil Bunting, William Empson, George Wilson Knight, Ronald Stuart Thomas, Frank Kermode, Stevie Smith, Frank Templeton Prince, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, Geoffrey Hill,

[Anonymous No.21906244]

Jonathan Spence, Elizabeth Jennings, Keith Doulgas, Hugh MacDiarmid, Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas, Nigel Dennis, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, John Arden, Joe Orton, Flann O'Brien, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Edward Bond, George Orwell, Edna O'Brien, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Broch, Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Scnitzler, Frank Wedekind, Karl Kraus, Günter Eich, Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, Paul Celan, Thomas Bernhard, Heinrich Böll, Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Walter Benjamin, Robert Walser, Christa Wolf, Peter Handke, Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Johannes Bobrowski, Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, Isaac Babel, Boris Pasternak, Yury Olesha, Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrey Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Karen Blixen, Martin Andersen Nexo, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Gunnar Ekelöf, Tomas Tranströmer, Pär Lagerkvist, Lars Gustafsson, Ivo Andrić, Vasko Popa, Danilo Kiš, Karel Čapek, Václav Havel, Milan Kundera, Jaroslav Seifert, Miroslav Holub, Bruno Schulz, Czesław Miłosz, Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Lem, Zbigniew Herbert, Adam Zagajewski, Attila József, Ferenc Juhász, László Németh, Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, Giorgos Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Yiannis Ritsos, Odysseas Elytis, Angelos Sikelianos, Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Mokher Seforim, Isaac Leib Peretz, Jacob Glatstein, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Leivick Halpern, Israel Joshua Singer, Chaim Grade, S. Ansky, Mani Leib, Sholem Asch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Aharon Appelfeld, Yaakov Shabtai, Yehuda Amichai, Abraham Yehoshua, Amos Oz, T. Carmi, Nathan Zach, Dalia Ravikovitch, Dan Pagis, David Shahar, David Grossman, Yoram Kaniuk, Naguib Mahfouz, Adunis, Mahmoud Darwish, Taha Hussein, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Nicolás Guillén, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cyril Lionel Robert James, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Aimé Césaire, Chinua Achebe, Wole Basedinka, Amos Tutuola, Christopher Okigbo, John Pepper Clark, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Gabriel Okara, Nadine Gordimer, John Maxwell Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, Salman Rushdie, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Malcolm Lowry, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Northrop Frye, Anne Hébert, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Daryl Hine, Miles Franklin, Katherine Mansfield, Alec Derwent Hope, Patrick White, Christina Stead,

[Anonymous No.21906249]

Judith Wright, Les Murray, Thomas Keneally, David Malouf, Kevin Hart, Peter Carey, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Elinor Wylie, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, John Crowe Ransom, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, Conrad Aiken, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Estlin Cummings, John Brooks Wheelwright, Robert Fitzgerald, Louise Bogan, Léonie Adams, Hart Crane, Allen Tate, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, Nathanael West, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Langston Hughes, Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, Joseph Mitchell, Abraham Cahan, Kay Boyle, Ellen Glasgow, John Phillips Marquand, John O'Hara, Henry Roth, Thornton Wilder, Robert Penn Warren, Delmore Schwartz, Weldon Kees, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Paul Bowles, Randall Jarrell, Charles Olson, Robert Hayden, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, James Agee, Jean Garrigue, May Swenson, Robert Duncan, Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, William Styron, Jerome David Salinger, Wright Morris, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, John Hawkes, William Gaddis, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edwin Justus Mayer, Harold Brodkey, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, Raymond Carver, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, John Crowley, Guy Davenport, James Dickey, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, Stanley Elkin, William Howard Gass, Russell Hoban, Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy, William Kennedy, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy, Grace Paley, Thomas Pynchon, Cynthia Ozick, Ishmael Reed, Philip Roth, James Salter, Robert Stone, John Barth, Walter Abish, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Michael Disch, Paul Theroux, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edmund White, James McCourt, James Wilcox, Archie Randolph Ammons, John Ashbery, David Mamet, David Rabe, Sam Shepard, August Wilson, Anthony Hecht, Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, James Merrill, William Stanley Merwin, James Wright, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Irving Feldman, Donald Hall, Alvin Feinman, Richard Howard, John Hollander, Gary Snyder, Charles Simić, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Jay Wright, Amy Clampitt, Allen Grossman, Howard Moss, James Applewhite, J. D. McClatchy, Alfred Corn, Douglas Crase, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Edward Hirsch and Tony Kushner (David Foster Wallace is OK)

[Anonymous No.21906267]

>>21906230
>>21906235
>>21906238
>>21906242
>>21906244
>>21906249
Based & thank-you. I'll be referring to this from now on.

[Anonymous No.21906644]

>>21905981
Stop being lazy, Johnson is very much worth a read

[Yusuf Reis !!WJh3Qmu5nf/ No.21906665]

>>21906644
Some of /lit/ can only appreciate literature performatively and so demand a critic like Bloom who can simply affirm that the orthodox canon, so to speak, is good good good, and what’s outside of it is mostly bad bad bad. So when such a mind encounters Eliot’s essay on Hamlet or Johnson’s on Milton, which can point out the flaws in masterpieces—the mind recoils. They take the orthodox canon of literature the way many Christians do the Bible, which is to say to never read it but to be offended at someone finding a flaw in it and so excommunicate him. Just as critics who actually read literature with great attention and thoughtfulness are often excommunicated by those who revere literature but never read it

[Anonymous No.21906668]

>>21905981
At least by this board’s standards

[Anonymous No.21906672]

>>21906249
>(David Foster Wallace is OK)
Kek'd hard

[Anonymous No.21906759]

>>21905999
Thucydides? How can you reason for Thucydides not being worth reading

And come on nigga you know very well Plato and Aristotle are incredibly important to study

[Anonymous No.21906972]

Lovecraft, Howard and all the other hacky, second rate magazine writers that Americans elevate because they have no real culture.

[Anonymous No.21907506]

>>21905981
What makes Samuel Johnson overrated? As far as modern criticism goes, Johnson is severely underrated. Not much attention is paid to him, even in studies of English literature. Even in Renaissance studies there are those in the camp that Johnson was a "bad" literary critic, or a "poor" political theorist. It's really only a minority of critics these days who are propping him up (including me.)

[Anonymous No.21907675]

>>21907506
Johnson is honestly phenomenal and criminally ignored.

[Anonymous No.21908025]

>>21906644
>>21907506
Life of Johnson isn't overrated, and Johnson isn't a hack neither, it's the funny portrait where Samuel Johnson has finished reading a bad book and looks with disgust toward the looker-on. Samuel Johnson was known for his caustic literary takes, particularly in his famous work "The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets". In this work, Johnson wrote biographical sketches of various poets and writers, and was often very critical of their work. His writing was characterized by a sharp wit and a willingness to call out hypocrisy and foolishness wherever he saw it. Overall, Johnson's writing was known for its acerbic wit and scathing commentary, which often made him a controversial figure in his time.

[Anonymous No.21908141]

>>21908025
Wow, you got me good... Turns out this is a secret chat gee pee tee thread

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.21908144]

>>21905999
Who do you like? Which prose writers and poets do you consider the best?

[Anonymous No.21908310]

>>21906972
Holy fucking based!

[Anonymous No.21908313]

>>21905981
Oscar Wilde

[Anonymous No.21908458]

>>21908144
Herodotus, Homer, Virgil, the Psalmist, Muhammad, Rousseau, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Jules Verne.

[Anonymous No.21908461]

>>21908144
H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, and Ayn Rand are also OK.

[Anonymous No.21908733]

>>21906249
You mentioned Kafka twice so I'll have to disregard everything you've said for that minor error. Sorry anon.

[Anonymous No.21908745]

>>21906042
Germans should stick with engineering. They were disastrous for philosophy.

[Anonymous No.21908773]

>>21908733
I agree with most but Sherwood Anderson is in my opinion perhaps the greatest American writer.

[Anonymous No.21908776]

>>21906230
Dazai is amazing

[Anonymous No.21908798]

>>21906238
Low IQ post

[Anonymous No.21909495]

>>21906036
T.S. Eliot has a couple good poems (Wasteland ain't one of them). Ezra Pound wrote the only good haiku in the English language:

>IN A STATION OF THE METRO
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Definitely overrated. But let's be honest, have you ever read a haiku in English that was THAT good?

[Anonymous No.21909989]

>>21908458
>Verne
From the earth to the moon is great but most of his other popular books are overrated shite

[Anonymous No.21910031]

>>21906087
Filtered by Husserl. He belongs with the latter. Otherwise I pretty much agree

[Anonymous No.21910047]

>>21906249
>>21906244
hmm