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Who is your favourite author, /lit/?

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*giggles*

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>> No.8148298

>>8148125
Keats is literally the biggest meme.

>> No.8149273

>>8148298
Nah, not really. He's the best lyric poet in the English language.

>> No.8149290

>>8148125
>it's a "Romanticism should be part of the canon" episode

>> No.8149326

>>8149273
He has his parallels, so it's up to debate, but he is one of the most richly natural in his use of sound, intensity, and thematic coherence.

>> No.8149373

>>8149290
Huh? It is. The Romantic poets are all incredibly popular.

>> No.8149428

>>8148125
Pynchon but I'm only 20

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>> No.8150039

>>8149428
>20
>Pynchon

Step up mang

Time to read Joyce and Gaddis

>> No.8150040

>>8148298

Sergeant: "All right, shut up, the Captain is going to give a talk on," (consults a tiny slip of paper), ".. Keats.. and I bet not one of you ignorant bastards knows what a keat is!"

- Spike Milligan's war memoirs

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Nathanael West.

Lived fast, wrote well, died violently. What's not to like?