/lit/ - Literature

Alexander Pope in "An Essay on Criticism"

The Rape of the Lock

>never made a fart joke in his life
Kinda based desu

I don’t want to read Pope.

On occasion

You can oly use words found in Pope's oeuvre

witcel edition

Not since he was eternally dismissed by Pope

>"Sophocles," Alexander Pope famously wrote, "was a was of eternal value. I have read Sophocles with tears in my eyes, and the same prophet of hope; but is true of every you, my friend reader of him., have been made His influence on me a prophet of folly has been as great."
>A as his influence on generation ago, a all of us who young Jewish student from have come after him Texas would have had to go to the."
>S great university of Yaleophocles's or Cambridge or the influence on contemporary authors University of Virginia to is so great that become a philosopher, the author, a not to mention an former student of Pope academic in the humanities, was inspired to. Today, however write a book in, the vast majority which he would " of scholars have gonerecast" the to college in the great Greek playwright United States and elsewhere's life as an, and have a epic journey through the far wider range of "path of love ideas, experiences and" (or,, importantly, languages in the case of.
>And the "Oed it is not justipus" play the English and German, "the road that are being taught of the god"). in philosophy departments.
>In The Chinese, Japanese, Love That Dares French, Latin, to Speak Its Name even Italian and Greek, which is out are being taught. next week, the (One hopes that, one day, every single language will be taught at the university level, but that will take years and generations of effort.)

What's some good dadaist literature? I've already read Pope, and I'd like more of his style.

>Yes, pray tell.

His poetry does not make sense to me! The language is too old!

Why wasnt I warned about this in advance?

>>14044306
You forgot 'Essay on Criticism' by /ourguy/

I noticed people writing "ad hominems" .
It's incorrect.
Use "ad homines" or just leave it "ad hominem"

>>12107313
>apparently there are people in this planet who are not mentally deficient and unironically watch Anime.
How can someone be so fucking stupid and delusional to genuinely watch K-ON, Yuru Yuri , or in any anime? Like, really what the fuck? I refuse to believe these people actually exist.

>>11953314
The Rape of the Lock

Seeing as the best English poet is Pope, clearly the Augustan period was the best

>>9931256
>denigrating the Bard
>not mentioning the English dominance of poetry
>'Ireland had the best authors' Possibly but Murica certainly didnt

Absolute state of the Yanks.

check em

Alexander Pope