/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22135223]

What was the best century for literature?

[Anonymous No.22135228]

>>22135223
As in what? The number of people reading or the number of great works released?

[Anonymous No.22135241]

the 19th century

[Anonymous No.22135246]

>>22135223
8th century BC

[Anonymous No.22135251]

The first century AD

[Anonymous No.22135268]

17th century if you include philosophy.

[Anonymous No.22135574]

>>22135223
Whatever century man first invented writing. It was all potential at that point

[Anonymous No.22135732]

19th century BC

[Anonymous No.22135738]

>>22135223
1830-1930

[Anonymous No.22135842]

>>22135251
fcbc

[Anonymous No.22136146]

>>22135223
The long 19th century AD

[Anonymous No.22136154]

>>22135251
the bible came out (i.e. was compiled/canonized by the Church) in the 4th century

[Anonymous No.22136156]

18th century no doubt about it, the sick resentment of the 19th century hadn't poisoned culture yet, but the stifling superstition of previous eras didn't constrain creativity. peak moment in history unlikely to be repeated.

[Anonymous No.22136204]

>>22135251
Second century*

[Anonymous No.22136453]

>>22136156
>the sick resentment of the 19th century hadn't poisoned culture yet
seriously? (picrel)

[Anonymous No.22136457]

The 32nd.

[Anonymous No.22136474]

>>22136453
rousseau, along with goethe, was the beginning of romanticism dumb ass

[Anonymous No.22136484]

>>22136156
>>22136453
>The Eighteenth was a *Sceptical* Century; in which little word there is a whole Pandora's Box of miseries. Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis. Perhaps, in few centuries that one could specify since the world began, was a life of Heroism more difficult for a man. That was not an age of Faith,—an age of Heroes! The very possibility of Heroism had been, as it were, formally abnegated in the minds of all. Heroism was gone forever; Triviality, Formulism and Commonplace were come forever. The "age of miracles" had been, or perhaps had not been; but it was not any longer. An effete world; wherein Wonder, Greatness, Godhood could not now dwell;—in one word, a godless world!
>>22136474
what is your point?

[Anonymous No.22136485]

>>22135223
the 20th century :)

[Anonymous No.22136499]

>>22136484
>oh no my medieval childish larps have come to an end
bummer

[Anonymous No.22136510]

>>22135223
The Antique Age of Mystical Obfuscation, Displayed Amidst the Veiled Fogs of Chronology, an Everlasting Expanse Wherein the Augmented Pen, Fostered by Divine Visions, Indefinitely Links Itself Amongst the Abysmal Gorge of Alchemically Rendered Contemplations. Within the Far-Reaching and Sovereign Two Thousandth Anniversary, Concealed in Deep Meditation and Majestic Creative Force, Lies the Untellable Enigmatic Riddle of Cosmic Universality, Liberating Discordant Voices which Resound throughout the Depthless Emptiness, Betokening the Acme of an Era as Homo Sapiens Struggled against the Maleficia of Mechanized Wonders, Perverted Dimensions, and the Revelation of Inexplicable Monsters.

[Anonymous No.22136512]

>>22136499
are you saying that
>fidelity, sincerity, spirituality
are "childish larps"?

[Anonymous No.22136537]

>>22136512
yes.

[Anonymous No.22136553]

>>22136537
hmm. well, it seems to me that whether they're larps or not, they were at least constructive.
>infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis
does not appear to be sustainable, nor do i think you or anyone else can seriously argue that it is, based on the state of the world today.

[Anonymous No.22136561]

>>22136553
so you think no one infidelitous, insincere or "spiritually paralyzed" before rousseau? if all it took was a couple essays to destroy your world then ya it was probs a larp

[Anonymous No.22136589]

>>22136561
>so you think no one infidelitous, insincere or "spiritually paralyzed" before rousseau?
never said that. certainly there were such people but those sentiments were undeniably popularised by the philosophes and their ilk.
>if all it took was a couple essays to destroy your world then ya it was probs a larp
you're "moving the goalpost" here. i don't care whether it was a larp or not, only about its effects, namely that the ages of faith were constructive, whereas the age of reason has been deconstructive.

[aaa No.22136612]

Now. We have so many books from all of these time petiods, and they are at our fingertips.

[Anonymous No.22136621]

>>22136589
how where the ages of faith constructive? the standard of living and birth rate where the lowest in european history.

[Anonymous No.22136644]

>>22135223
1800s

[Anonymous No.22136662]

>>22136621
a quick google search refutes both of your arguments:
the birth rate actually doubled and was larger than it ever had been before. read for yourself:
>https://www.wondriumdaily.com/how-europes-population-in-the-middle-ages-doubled/
as for "standard of living" (https://www.citeco.fr/10000-years-history-economics/antiquity-to-middle-ages/medieval-economic-revolution):
>Europe experienced a period of economic growth that culminated in the 12th and 13th centuries
now, if you're talking about some peasant and saying that his life was horrible, then you misunderstand manorialism and feudalism, that they are systems which reflect a culture (age of faith) whose values are different than ours (age of reason).

[Anonymous No.22136683]

>>22136156
What are some good works from the 18th century? Preferably novels

[Anonymous No.22136715]

>>22135223
1520ish to 1620ish

[Racist White Supremacist !!deW9hsQKVZl No.22137463]

>>22135223
The Nineteenth.

[Anonymous No.22138535]

>>22136715
good shout