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Anonymous Mon Mar 2 23:02:30 2015 No.6217657 [Reply] [Original]

Why is English classic literature so shitty? I keep seeing books that sound interesting only to find out they're German, French, or Russian. Other than James Joyce our 20th century catalog is comparatively awful.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 2 23:04:02 2015 No.6217667 >20th century >classic literature Anyway, my favorite poets are Pound and Eliot and English isn't even my first language.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:00:54 2015 No.6217907 The same reason there aren't any decent English composers. English as a language is literally the product of English plebs trying to communicate with their continental overlords.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:06:13 2015 No.6217939 File: 133 KB, 1200x1600, milton1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 Wretch.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:07:14 2015 No.6217943 File: 674 KB, 1359x1600, shakespeare-words.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 Knave.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:08:17 2015 No.6217949 File: 1.74 MB, 1318x1852, chaucer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 Ass.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:09:41 2015 No.6217953 File: 16 KB, 220x285, Alexander Duyouevenreadmas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 Dip dap doogabooga bibbly bobbily.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:11:00 2015 No.6217958 >>6217943 Doesn't Shakespeare look like a total loser? Is that why he wrote so much?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:11:05 2015 No.6217959 File: 167 KB, 800x986, 800px-Marlowe-Portrait-1585.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 Devil.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:12:53 2015 No.6217962 File: 22 KB, 530x444, 1411378136434.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217958 Probably.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:13:07 2015 No.6217964 Nostromo was written in 1905

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:14:11 2015 No.6217967 >>6217657 >Other than James Joyce our 20th century catalog is comparatively awful. Patrick White you god awful dog cunt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:15:11 2015 No.6217969 File: 169 KB, 1280x1280, C.S. Lewis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 Don't be a snob lad.

Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:18:15 2015 No.6217983
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>>6217657
OP is a hollow man
OP is a stuffed man
Posting alone
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
His dried voice, when
He whispers alone
Is quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In his mom's basement

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:21:20 2015 No.6217994 i only know french and english but damn english poetry is so much better than french poetry.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 00:47:44 2015 No.6218053 >>6217959 >>6217943 Same dude btw

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 02:35:28 2015 No.6218347 There's more English language works in Bloom's western canon than any other, even when you count GB and US separately. France is third.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 17:34:38 2015 No.6219931 >>6217983 Beautiful

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 17:37:12 2015 No.6219940 File: 79 KB, 960x653, 1335112606761.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 >Other than James Joyce our 20th century catalog is comparatively awful. Too busy fighting wars and running the world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 17:38:50 2015 No.6219950 Nabokov abandoned writing in russian to write in english instead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 17:40:08 2015 No.6219956 File: 28 KB, 400x396, 1419986174922.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6217657 >Other than James Joyce our 20th century catalog is comparatively awful. >He hasn't read B.S Johnson

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 17:41:08 2015 No.6219960 File: 7 KB, 321x327, 308b11.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >inb4 pleb >inb4 meme >inb4 overrated >inb4 every other negative comment

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 18:11:42 2015 No.6220097 >>6219940 >England in the 20th century >not a declining empire since WW1 At least it's not England in the 21st century, what an abysmal fuckfest.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 18:29:00 2015 No.6220193 >>6219960 MAH NIGGA

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 18:29:46 2015 No.6220198 It's because Jews took control of most forms of mass media by the 20th century. And Jews are a bit shit at the whole art thing. >Yes I will go back to /pol/ now

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 18:31:08 2015 No.6220205 >>6220198 >And Jews are a bit shit at the whole art thing. Wagner pls go

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 06:29:36 2015 No.6222569 >>6217657 >I keep seeing books that sound interesting I mean, why do people even bother responding to this. OP is a blazing homosexual.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 07:14:54 2015 No.6222640 >>6217657 >no Hemingway mentioned fucking kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 07:17:10 2015 No.6222646 >>6217969 He was such a shit writer that Tolkien broke off their friendship due to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 09:30:20 2015 No.6222954 >>6217994 Are you high ? English poetry is the worst.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 09:36:20 2015 No.6222965 this is a troll thread m8s

Anonymous Wed Mar 4 14:29:06 2015 No.6224205

> be Irishman
> strolling along Dawson St
> stop at Hodges Figgis
> nonchalantly pick up Portrait of an Artist
> skim through the delicate prose
> be transported to turn of century Dublin
> swell of pride as generations of Irish excellence flow over me
> return to quiet street
> cool and crisp with a pleasant breeze
> Continue toward Trinity
> what a time to be a young man

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