/lit/ - Literature

Hymn by Cædmon (7th century)
Christ II by Cynewulf (8th century) (Tr. Raymond Wilson Chambers)
Beowulf (c.1000) (Tr. William Morris)
The Song of Roland (c. 1050) (Tr. C. K. Moncreiff)
The Poem of the Cid (c. 1140) (Tr. Robert Southey)
Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from ‘Roman de Rou’ by Wace (c. 1170) (Tr. Edgar Taylor)
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes (c. 1180) (Tr. William Wistar Comfort)
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1210) (Tr. Jessie Weston)
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin by Shota Rustaveli (c. 1190) (Tr. Marjory Wardrop)
The Song of the Nibelungs (c. 1200) (Tr. Daniel Bussier Shumway)
Lays of Marie de France (c. 1210) (Tr. Eugene Mason)
The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris [PARTIAL TRANSLATION] (c. 1230) (Tr. Geoffrey Chaucer)
Poetic Edda (c. 13th century) (Tr. Benjamin Thorpe)
Wine, Women and Song: Mediæval Latin Students’ Songs (c. 13th century) (Tr. John Addington Symonds)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320) (Tr. H. F. Cary)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375) (Tr. Jessie Weston)
Sonnets by Francesco Petrarca (c. 1374) (Tr. Thomas Campbell)
Piers Plowman by William Langland (c. 1380) Edited by Thomas Wright
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1400)

What are your favorite examples of purposedly overelaborate baroque prose?

>>16314189
Indubitably.

>further explanation is not needed

>>15498664
t. big brain anon

>>15449740
Modern classicists have already found out, by finding phrases and vocab that were inserted during Platon's existence, that Homer is a pyramid: many hands contributed to his construction. Perhaps one man provided the skeleton but many others added the flesh and blood.