/lit/ - Literature

No thanks

>calls poe, lovecraft, and tolkien horrible nigh unreadable authors
what are the odds harold bloom is burning in hell right now?

>>21519084
Discernable talent

What happened to gay-ass pretentious goober public intellectuals like Harold Bloom? I understand academia started moving away from the old guard and the perceived pretentiousness of actually valuing aesthetics, and it's largely a culture war that's so bland and ongoing that who cares to comment on it, but what I miss, what I really MISS, is having absolute bizarro intellectual characters like this in the public eye.

My man would go on Charlie Rose and insisted on calling him "Charles". He would recite William Blake poetry when absolutely no one asked him to and the context of the situation did no call for it whatsoever. He would tell hilarious baldface lies like how when he was in college he used to read at a rate of 1,000 pages an hour. He spoke in a weird, wet-lipped, effete affect that sounded almost British but he was from like Connecticut or something.

The whole fun of academia is that it's pretentious and retarded. Who's keeping this shit alive anymore?

>>21443595
what's the best book ever written, anon? this isn't a gotcha, this is just something i genuinely want to know, so i can understand you better. what do you think is the best written novel ever? please answer honestly. i won't make fun or attack you (though other people here might, but fuck them, they genuinely don't matter) it will aid me immeasurably if you tell me.

>>21421011
>mfw the school of resentment won

>>21420756
>>21420683

>2022
>I am forgotten

>the thread went from /lit/s top 100 to /lit/s remedial computer literacy class

>>21375962
Fun fact: Harold Bloom's ONLY work of fiction ever was intended as a sort of sequel to this novel. Apparently it's complete shit - Bloom's book, I mean

>>21284408
Are you kidding? Bloom loves Tommy

>>21000548
With a picture of sad-face Harold Bloom looking on

So last night I had a dream that I met Harold Bloom in a crowd of people
He did not look like Harold Bloom looks like but I knew it was him
So I tried to get his attention and told him I had bought his book The Visionary Company and asked him if it was a good introduction to poetry
He looked at me but didn't say anything meaningful
Do you think it's a good introduction? Can you think of anything similar?

>Shakespeare, even in the sonnets, represents himself as having no personality at all. This self-evasion has augmented the lunatic legions of the Oxfordians, who seem not to care that we have a few indubitable poems by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. These pale lyrics show that the great aristocrat could not write his way out of a paper bag.

I love Harold Bloom. He loved reading his whole life. God bless and RIP. Whatever problem you have is a YOU problem and not a literature problem.

>defends the canon
>doesn't want the canon to consist of a list of books

>there are people in this thread right now who unironically got filtered
I thought you guys were just trying to bait...

>>20695692
>her

>>20610208
>we will not be masquerade
She's mocking us, lit. She's pointing at us and laughing for caring about literature

>>20540919
When I was a Cornell freshman, I walked out of Vladimir Nabokov’s initial lecture in a course on the European novel. At that time, I had read only “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” (1941) and “Bend Sinister” (1947), which had just come out in English. My adviser M. H. Abrams, a permanent influence on my life and work, was a friend of Nabokov and urged me to take the course. I recall that Nabokov began by unfavorably comparing Gogol and Jane Austen. He added that women just could not write. At seventeen, I was brash enough to walk out. This was observed by Nabokov and by his wife, Véra. That evening, I received a phone call from Mrs. Nabokov, inviting me to tea at their house at 957 East State Street, Ithaca, the next afternoon and gently telling me that her husband was displeased and intended to destroy me in a chess match after tea. I was only an amateur chess player and knew Nabokov’s reputation as a composer of chess problems. In some terror, I went over to the Cornell library and took out José Capablanca’s “Chess Fundamentals.” Relying on memory, I ingested five or six sample games. After tea the next afternoon, which was outdoors on a balmy September day, during which Nabokov did not speak at all, Mrs. Nabokov cleared everything away and the novelist led me over to a very ornate and large chessboard, placed in the shade of a tree. I had never seen such beautiful chessmen, and I was awed. Silently, Nabokov graciously indicated I had the first move, and I commenced one of Capablanca’s favorite games. I held my host off for about eight moves, during which he looked perplexed. Suddenly his face cleared and he cried out, ‘You young rascal, you have memorized Capablanca!’ With great relish he said, ‘Now I will destroy you in just four moves.’ He did exactly that. Without a word, he walked back into his house. I walked home.

>>20362138

>>20243295
>book review is about shit that isn't actually in the book

>Poe is a bad poet, a poor critic, and a dreadful prose stylist in his celebrated tales.
>Almost anyone can retell the "Fall of the House of Usher" more effectively than Poe does, because Poe's diction in uniquely abominable. As for the most famous Poe lyrics--"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee" and the astonishingly dreadful "Ulalume,"--you can abandon yourself to them if you want to, but what is it that Poe gives you?"
>In Poe's art of sinking poetry every deep conceals a lower deep, a bathos more profound.

>>20026842
8.4
>>20026865
7.5
>>20027151
5.5
>>20027341
6
>>20027352
8.2
>>20027365
3
>>20027368
7.9
>>20027442
7
>>20027492
7.2
>>20027547
8.1
>>20027623
7.4
>>20027877
8.4
>>20027972
not 10 books
>>20028122
8.6
>>20028309
7.7
>>20029259
7.9
>>20030565
8.5
>>20030601
7
>>20030649
8.7
>>20031561
7.6
>>20031610
8.1
>>20031659
8
>>20032164
7.8
>>20032220
8.8
>>20032243
8.2
>>20032899
7.4
>>20033385
7.7
>>20035869
7.9
>>20035942
7.5
>>20036082
6.8
>>20036327
not 10 books
>>20036337
8.3

>avid reader