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Name a better work of literature than Paradise Lost

>> No.4759783

>>4759780
Luke

>> No.4759843

I read that when I was 18 or something.

Pretty badass how it opens with the devil up to his nose in lava, thingken of life.

>> No.4759856

Divine Comedy
read Inferno then Purgatorio then Inferno and Purgatorio then Paradiso then Inferno and Purgatorio and Paradiso

>> No.4759868

On The Road

>> No.4759874

>>4759780

ohhh you got us

>> No.4760039

I don't know if there's a "better than" but all of the top ten epic poems are damn good.

>> No.4760053

Twilight

>> No.4760060

>>4760053
I'm glad someone did it so I wouldn't have to.

>> No.4760071

>>4760060
what a useless contribution
"I"
don't do this tripfag thing, just stop

>> No.4761045

blod miradan

>> No.4761089

infinut gist

>> No.4761099

grivate raynboe

>> No.4761106

>>4759780
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret.

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4761108

>>4759868
>actually thinks On the Road is better
LOL!

>> No.4761594

T.S. Eliot at his worst > Paradise Lost

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>>4761594
LOL!!
good joke bro

>> No.4762632

>>4759868
its good...but not better

>> No.4762678

Milton probably would have said Paradise Regained.

>> No.4764463

The Last Messiah

>> No.4764680

>>4761594

>Polyphiloprogenitive
The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes.
In the beginning was the Word.

ya fuck mitlon we Elliot now

>> No.4764703

>>4762632
Fair enough.

>> No.4767411

>>4761108
What is a nigger doing in such a beautiful library?

>> No.4767424

>>4767411
Education, I can see why you wouldn't recognise it.

>> No.4767456

>>4759780
Hamlet

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>>4767456

>> No.4767468

The Book of Job

The Greeks

>> No.4769982

>>4759780
Faust by Goethe

>> No.4770324

>>4759780
the hobbit

>> No.4770335

>>4770324
There are oddly interesting parallels.
Resurrection of a dead style (or a style that might as well have been dead) for example

>> No.4770349

>>4770335
Name some others.

>> No.4770361

>>4770349
Possibly the expulsion from Eden and Bilbo's exodus

>> No.4770374

>>4770349
Main character wasn't the most heroic character (Satan and Bilbo)

The work of a devout Christian that inspired non-Christians (Blake, etc. for Milton, the whole hippie community for Tolkien, so much so that he wrote the whole Silmarillion to make everything clearly Christian)

Both books rest on a conversation between a main character and a "serpent"

Both books are the first part of a much larger story, (All of human history as told by Rafael to Adam, LotR), a larger story that pivots on the events of this book (Original sin in PL, the ring and Gollum in Hobbit)

There are probably more, but I think i proved my point.

>> No.4770385

>>4770335
Calvino is better than both

>> No.4770388

>>4770335
there are but I was mostly joking
honestly, "best" isn't an objective status, it's just personal preference. I enjoyed the hobbit more than paradise lost so I think the hobbit is a better work. A purely hedonistic approach to answering OP's question.
>>4770385
Calvino is the best imo :)

>> No.4770397

>>4770385
I have never enjoyed a book more than I did when I read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
It just manages to suck you in so well, then pulls the perfect bait and switch by making you the main character.
Then the titles of the chapters thing from the end?
I want to read that book for the first time, all the time.

>> No.4770401

>>4770388
>there are but I was mostly joking
I know, but that was just the first time I had thought about them together, and they are more alike than I would have thought.

>> No.4770408

>>4770401
more alike than you'd prefer to think*

>> No.4770413

>>4770408
Was I grammatically wrong?
I have no preference in the matter.

>> No.4770415

>>4770413
I was making a joke that you were uncomfortable with the similarities between the 2 stories.

>> No.4770429

>>4770415
I like the parallels to be honest. I think some of them were intentional on Tolkien's part, especially the talking serpent

>> No.4770514

I feel bad for Milton
>Homer wrote the great epic of Greece and became the great poet of Greek
>Virgil wrote the great epic of Rome and became the great poet of Latin
>Dante wrote the great epic of Italy and became the great poet of Italian
>No great English epic poem yet! Surely I'll..
Except the greatest poet of the English language was already dead and buried.

>> No.4770540

>>4770514
Homer was probably multiple people, Dante was exiled from his city-state (or whatever Italy had at the time) and Milton was a better poet than Shakespeare. PL blows the Sonnets out of the water.

>> No.4770775

>>4767468
>The Book of Job

This

I read it once and I see the parable coming to life fucking everywhere

We could stand to learn a lot from Job.

>> No.4771041

>>4770514
>not feeling bad for ovid

>> No.4771045

>>4759868
back to the /mu/ house you silly willy