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What is your favourite literary movement? Not meaning the best necessarily but the one that contains works that you seem to just gravitate towards.

Mine is romanticism. Call me a pleb but I love the excess and emotion. It makes me so hard.

>> No.6126986
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6126986

New Wave science fiction

>> No.6126998

postmodernism. The irony and layers of (meta) symbolism just tickle me pink.

>> No.6127007

english renaissance

>> No.6127340

>>6126968
free the nipple!!!!

>> No.6127350

Victorian era (I don't know what movement, if there is one, that would be classified under. I just know 90% of my favorite works are from that period).

>> No.6127351

>>6126968
The Metaphysical Poets

doz conceits

>> No.6127352

>>6126968
Realism.

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6127353

Lately I have been pulled towards baroque poetry. Gryphuis, de Quevedo. Too bad I'm not fluent in Spanish or German.

>> No.6127368

>>6127353
Was sind wir Menschen doch? ein Wohnhaus grimmer Schmerzen /
Ein Ball des falschen Glücks / ein Irrlicht dieser Zeit /
Ein Schauplatz herber Angst / besetzt mit scharfem Leid /
Ein bald verschmelzter Schnee / und abgebrannte Kerzen /

>> No.6127370

>>6126968
Realism and new wave SF

>> No.6127375

>>6127353
Nace en las Indias honrado,
Donde el mundo le acompaña;
Viene a morir en España,
Y es en Génova enterrado.
Y pues quien le trae al lado
Es hermoso, aunque sea fiero,
Poderoso caballero
Es don Dinero.

>> No.6127388

pleb

>> No.6127398

Scy fy
Most books aren't good but everytime I open a new one I just keep hoping.

>> No.6127419

Am where should I start with romanticism?

>> No.6127750

>>6126968
Expressionism

>> No.6127812

Modernism, I've been obsessed with Wordsworth as of late, however

>> No.6127815

>>6127419
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

>> No.6127820

>>6126968

Modernism.

>> No.6128185

>>6127419
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience are fairly accessible entry points to romanticism, though he was one of the later (if not last) Romantic poet I can recall

>> No.6128204

I have a real fondness for the dark romantics, like Poe, Hawthorne and Robert Browning. I'm also big on weird fiction, from The King in Yellow to Thomas Ligotti.

>> No.6128217

>>6127419
I'd say start with some of the more notable works by Blake and Wordsworth, then try to work up to Don Juan by Lord Byron, which IMO is the pinnacle of romanticism.

>> No.6128219

>>6127350
Realism. It's my favorite period too.

>> No.6128252

>>6127419
>plebs enjoying my favorite movement
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHH
Start with Spenser. He was doing romanticism hundreds of years before romantics were doing romanticism. These plebs here are referring to high romanticism.

MOVEMENTS POWER RANKING
>romanticism
>modernism
>realism
>the rest
>POWER GAP
>POWER GAP
>
>
>
>Post modernism
>transcendentalism bar Walt Whitman

>> No.6128268

>>6128185
He predated the movement.

>> No.6128325

Modernism, Romanticism and Elizabethan verse (in the loose sense of the term movement).

>> No.6128331

>>6128252
>Start with Spenser. He was doing romanticism hundreds of years before romantics were doing romanticism.

no. just no. romances are not romanticism. they have nothing to do with each other. romanticism is a literary approach, romance is a genre.

>> No.6128333

>>6128331
Are you going to argue with the greatest poet of our generation?

>> No.6128354

post-metamodernism. Of course, my 2500 page tome will start the moment.

The tile is: In search of Infinite Jest (Vol I of X)

>> No.6128389

>>6128331
I know what romanticism is you dumb fart, and Spenser was one of the first if not the first romanticist. Have you even read the faerie queen? How are you going to tell me Bower of Bliss isn't romanticist?

>> No.6128561

>>6128389
>Have you even read the faerie queen?

Yes.

>How are you going to tell me Bower of Bliss isn't romanticist?

Because Romanticism is a philosophy of art, not how flowery your verse is...

>> No.6130156

>>6126968

Modernism because I find the period that was being written about was so different to what came before. The idea of living in the city had come to the fore. The writers such as Hemingway, Joyce, Greene, Burgess etc. It seems to be the time of greatest upheaval in history because you had two world wars going on which adds this abundance of material, but I'm sure someone who's brushed up on their history will be happy to inform me I'm wrong. As well as that I just think that there was just so much innovation going on in literature at that time.

>> No.6130161

Alt lit.

>> No.6130170

>>6128389
i think you have a really weak grasp on what makes something romanticist lol

>> No.6130173

>>6128561
Confirmed for retarded. Many parts of the Faerie Queen deal with romantic themes and ideals, especially book II. Maybe you just failed to grasp what Guyon experienced in the Bower. Or maybe you haven't read it

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>>6130161

>> No.6131273

Is it pleb hour in here?

Aestheticism.

>> No.6131319

>>6130173
Interesting name change, but Spenser isn't a Romantic poet. Not any of the anon's you're arguing with so far, but just here to point out you haven't read Spenser well, or, more likely, at all. It's pretty ballsy to suggest Spenser, writing more than a century before Burke, as a Romantic, if you want to run the same troll again, try Milton since people should actually feel bad about not understanding him.

>> No.6131937

>>6131273
Go to bed, Ruskin.

>>6130173
Confirmed for having no understanding of Romanticism whatsoever.

>> No.6132074

old anglo alliterative verse

>> No.6132484

Going to get so much hate for this but my favorite is the beat generation

>> No.6132491

>>6126968

some modernism but mostly post-modernism

largely because I grew up reading tons of 19th century and earlier material, and jumping into Joyce and then the late 20th century was refreshing

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realism, though it might be more of a limitation i'm unable to overcome, and have simply grown accustomed to, for my own writing than a favorite style.