/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5020356]

Hi /lit/, I'm going to the bookstore tomorrow and I wanted your opinion :
Which books do you recommend me for Blake and Byron ? Heard "Manfred" was really good. What do you think ?

Also, what would you recommend for a " beginner " in French Literature (preferably poetry) ?
I already read some poems of du Belay and Ronsard, and I hesitate between "les Amours" "les Meditations Poètiques " or "Les Fleurs du Mal."

[Anonymous No.5020368]

>>5020356
Get Les Fleurs du Mal.
From Blake, get Songs of Innocence and Experience (illustrated) and the Illustrated Books.

[Anonymous No.5020405]

>>5020356
Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Don't know for Byron.
>"les Meditations Poètiques " or "Les Fleurs du Mal"
Both, very different but both are essentials if you want good basis.

[Anonymous No.5020664]

why would you buy books by those authors when you could just read them on gutenberg?

I would recommend don juan by byron. Very funny. One of my favorite stanzas:


When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,'
They mean to scold, and very often do;
When poets say, 'I've written fifty rhymes,'
They make you dread that they 'll recite them too;
In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes;
At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true,
But then, no doubt, it equally as true is,
A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

[Anonymous No.5020678]

>>5020356
Blake the Nexus.

Probably TreDeep4Ya'll though.