/lit/ - Literature

>>20133732
My sentence is of open war, of wiles
More unexpert I boast not
Let them those contrive who need, or when they need, not now
For while they sit contriving, shall the rest
Millions that stand in arms and longing wait the signal to ascend
Sit lingering here, heaven's fugitives. And for their dwelling place
Accept this dark opprobious den of shame
The prison of his tyranny who reigns by our delay
No, let us rather choose
Armed with hell flames and fury all at once
O'er heaven's high to force resistless way
Turning our tortures into horrid arms against the torturer
When to meet the sound of his almighty engine he shall hear
Infernal thunder, and for lightning see black fire and horror
Shot with equal rage amongst his angels, his own throne
Mixed with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire
His own invented torments

>>19146723
TAKE THAT BACK SHE IS A NICE LADY

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO BACK TO YOUR FUCKING CONTAINMENT BOARD
THIS BOARD IS FOR LITERARY DISCUSSION

>be me
>unifag
>majoring in English, in pre-law
>take American literature course because American literature is cozy and it will hopefully give me an excuse to read classics which I haven't gotten to yet
>get reading list

"From Lynching to the Capitol" - Erica Fretwell
"What is Literature?" - Jonathan Culler
Narrative of my Captivity and Restoration - Mary Rowlandson
An Address to the Whites - Elias Boudinot
An Indian's Looking Glass For the White Man - William Apess
Impressions of an Indian Childhood - Zitkala-sa
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? - Frederick Douglass
Ballot or Bullet - Malcolm X
Paul's Letter to American Christians - Martin Luther King Jr.
The Goophered Grapevine - Charles Chestnutt
Po' Sandy - Charles Chestnutt
Life in the Iron Mills - Rebecca Harding Davis
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Why does this happen bros? I just want to read classic literature, I don't care about modern politics, why is it so inescapable? It making me tired bros.

>>17417829
I'M TRYINGGGGG

>>17383145
ITS
A
BLUE
BOARD
ABOUT
BOOKS

>>17031302
Butterfly, please help me fulfill my hedonistic life (a life of supreme pleasure) by NEVER POSTING HERE AGAIN!!!

>Endnotes instead of footnotes
I'M NOT GOING TO FLIP BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE BOOK TO READ THESE RETARDED ASTERISKS REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>12338198
ALASDAIR FUCKING MACINTYRE THE WRITER OF AFTER VIRTUE WHO REVOLUTIONIZED ETHICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND PUT ARISTOTLE AND AQUINAS BACK ON THE FUCKING PHILOSOPHICAL MAP WRITE HIS FUCKING NAME DOWN PUT AFTER VIRTUE NEXT TO IT THEN GO OUT TOMORROW AND GET A COPY YOU FUCKING SHITPOSTER LARPFAGGOT

>>12338027
IF BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER ISNT TOP PLACE IM GONNA

IM GONNA

IM GONNA FUCKING
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>>9667792
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
IT WAS A DUNGBEETLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>6779564
>Hollywood, Y U

Holy fucking reddit, get the fuck out

>>6773508
>should of
>could of
>would of

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