/lit/ - Literature

>>15318192
Single handedly blocks your path. I love JD but AM more. The latter's complexity is far less obvious which means he achieves a kind of poetic grace sometimes lacking in the former. Just an opinion- almost regret having to choose

>>15184450
Dickinson's poetry
Marvell's poetry
Gibbon's history
Boswell's biography
Pepys' diary

>>13157472
Sure. Marvell and Dickinson.

>>12404548
I don't think he's the favorite of many, but read an old anthology (like Palgrave's) where his lyric poetry's compared both to his own contemporaries and then to poems both before and after and it becomes clear that Milton's the second best (after Shakespeare) and even arguably the best. Most all his lyrics are better than solid, e.g. L'allegro and Il Penseroso are incredibly good poems. Pic'd is my favorite poet in English, however.

>>12210512
Doubtful, though I like them both.

>>12151486
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>>12153613
Based Marvell posters. His cleverness and intelligence bring Dickinson to mind, his aesthetic standards Thomas Hardy. A poet's poet if there is one.

>>11615308
In England from Dryden to Auden. Clearly. Though the greatest poets arguably flourished before this stage-- Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Milton.

>>11614895
Youre not dumb, anon. Reading beyond the pale of matter-of-fact takes time and patience- that's all. I remember being assigned Carlyle's Sartor Resartus in a Vic Lit class as a sophomore and not being able to make heads or tails of it. A few years later though, after becoming familiar with Schlegel and the ways and means of post-Kantian German philosophy, there was nothing to it. Actually, it's a very intimate, perhaps Carlyle's sweetest, book. Don't be afraid to grow, anon.