/lit/ - Literature

Books/Essays on genius and geniuses? I like:

>"On Genius" and various essays where it's mentioned - Schopenhauer
>Criticism on Shakespeare (Goddard, Bradley)
>Pynchon's novels
>Nietzsche's earlier works (On the Future of Educational Institutions; On Schopenhauer as Educator)

>>10715753
tfw reading while girlfriend cleans and listens to pop music

>>10674492
Fuck I really want to post an excerpt from my WIP where I go into detail about this. Funny that you linked Joyce specifically because I say he's one of the very few exceptions where it becomes conscious (vs. writing unconsciously). Goethe, Milton, Shelley, Keats, Schopenhauer, Goddard, and Bradley write about how writing is unconscious. Read The Meaning of Shakespeare and Shakespearean Tragedy by the last two for your quickest way into seeing the truth. Most folks who tells you it's conscious are jealous that someone actually has the genius to write. 90% of academics and professors i've run into are especially guilty of this.

>I'm a drunk anon. I halfway know my stuff. Ask me anything related to the canon or anything in life and I'll give you an honest-to-god opinion and answer. At the end tell me if I'm worthy.

Discussion Questions:

Favorite Shakespeare girl? Why?
Favorite least discussed play? Why?
Opinions on Plato vs. Shakespeare?
Favorite opinion or quote of another author on Shakespeare?

Observations (more discussions?):

The only actual cheating I can think of is by Tamora in Titus, but other than that, even if cuckoldry is mentioned in literally every other play, Shakespeare shows us that it is all in the mind (most emphasized in Othello and Winter's Tale). Hell, you even have Benedick in Much Ado saying he will not marry because of cuckoldry, and his friend stating that if Benedick of all people get married, it'll show how wrong he is and how much people can change. Aaaaand, look what happens.

Taming of the Shrew is vastly underrated and to anyone who has read Art of Love or has had a girlfriend (like the Rosalind or Cleopatra effect), will see the brilliance behind Katherine, and especially the relationship.

Portia is very foine. The fact that Portia in Julius Ceasar is great too is no coincidence.

Did he actually exist?

What kind of anime would he watch?

>Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to his doctor, for for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler. (Hamlet 3.2.279-281)
>more richer
>for for

ITT: talentless hacks

does every school in the Anglosphere teach about his work? How does /lit/ even rate him?

Overrated?