[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 186 KB, 500x635, asd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17016297 No.17016297[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

https://www.biography.com/writer/dante#:~:text=Dante%20was%20an%20Italian%20poet,%3A%20purgatory%2C%20heaven%20and%20hell.
> T.S. Eliot, who was greatly influenced by Dante, put Dante in a class with only one other poet of the modern world, Shakespeare, saying that they ”divide the modern world between them. There is no third.”
The absolute state of Americans

>> No.17016341

is your point that Eliot was a douche for leaving out Homer? You know he was famous for contrarian takes right? although sucking Dante's knob is pretty standard

>> No.17016377
File: 2.54 MB, 500x281, wish.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
17016377

I>f you only knew how hopeless things are.>>17016297

>> No.17016379

>>17016297
>>17016341
Homer is not modern anyway, so he's not relevant to the point. OP is just baiting.

>> No.17016389

>>17016341
>You know he was famous for contrarian takes right?
The hilarious thing is he argued Coriolanus was Shakespeare's best work. In what fucking world, lewl.

>> No.17016425

>>17016389
Must have been at around the same time he decided Robert II was the last legitimate king of England. Guy was a real-life deadpan troll, only he hadn't the ability to escape his own trolling.

>> No.17016432

>>17016377
Courage brother

>> No.17016505

Angloids are stupid. They're a bunch of insular, navelgazing dimwits.