/lit/ - Literature

>>22869267
>Rousseau
an emo nerd who got a fetish from being spanked
>Descartes
a proper disciple of Plato, using reason and poetic language to pierce through the veil
>Tocqueville
a true aristos who displayed the inanity of rule by the turba
>montaigne
low t who uses quotes from more vigorous minds to support his insipid "philosophy"

>>22775744
Frater, ave atque vale.

>There is an obvious similarity between the practical turn of Chaucer's mind and the restless impatience of his character, and the tone of his writings.
>Spenser, whose poetical temperament was effeminate, in contrast to the stern and masculine poetical temperament of Chaucer, was naturally drawn to the unrestrained indulgence of "flowery tenderness"
>Spenser delighted in luxurious enjoyment; Chaucer in sever activity of the mind.
>Spenser was the most romantic and visionary; Chaucer the most practical, firmly rooted in physical reality.
>As a result, the readers of Chaucer's poetry feel more nearly what the person he describes must have felt. His sentiments are not voluntary effusions of the poetic fancy but founded on the natural impulses and habits of his characters.
>Chaucer's muse is no "babbling gossip of the air." His poetry has a tangible quality around it that cannot be replicated by many poets who, like Spenser, drift off into the shadowy realm of affected sentimentality where nothing has sharp edges.
Who are some masculine poets?