/lit/ - Literature

FAUST BY ¥GOETHE¥

>>17847397
The Aeneid
Pharsalia
Chanson de Roland
Orlando in Love
Orlando Furioso
Jerusalem Delivered

>>17847397
High time for Dante.

>>17847413
>>17847397
Sorry, I misread - read the Aeneid first.

>>17847401
>>17847404
>>17847413
>>17847429
Hm, alright I'll give them a read. That being said, I just learned about the existence of the Dionysiaca; is it worth a read?

Lucrece
Beowulf
>>17847404
these
and this
>>17847413
but Mandelbaum's translation if you're going English

Gilgamesh

>>17847461
>Mandelbaum's translation
Longfellow or bust. Raffel a close second.

>>17847397
The Faerie Queene.

>>17847469
longfellow's only claim is that he was the first American to do it successfully. Mandelbaum is better to understand the themes, and any poet who translated it and kept the rima is better for the poetical view

Oooh, what about The Mahabharata, lads? Is it worth a read?

>>17847404
Nawh those are all kinda lame
Go for something good like Knight in The Panthers Skin or anticlaudianus if you're interested only in old epics

No mention of ovid? baka.
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Ovid - Ars Amotoria

>>17847508
Not true. Longfellow is the closest to the Italian (I've read it in Italian as well) out of the English versions I read. Mandelbaum is basically paraphrasing and elongating things.

>>17847401
??? might as well put the henriads on the list then

>Dionysiaca; is it worth a read?
Yes, but beware it's the longest epic ever written.

>>17847460
>Dionysiaca; is it worth a read?
Yes, but beware it's the longest epic ever written.

>>17847397
>pic related
But also The Children of Hurin if you're into Tolkien's other stuff.
Beren and Lúthien is cool too

>>17848207
Unironically Tolkiens epic poetry is fucking great. Especially his translated work.

Lay of the Children of Hurin is available mostly online too, and although it's incomplete it's a fun read. Especially since you can knock it out in a day pretty easily.

>>17848314
>Lay of the Children of Hurin
I think you mean The Lays of Beleriand.
You're not wrong though, Tolkien's stuff is fantastic. It's a shame when people only think of it as fantasy battles. Guy was basically creating a new culture, complete with adventure stories, Epics, mythologies, genealogies and fucking languages.

The Thebaid

>>17847397
Gilgamesh of course, why miss the first Epic Poem, it also has many cool parallels to the Odyssey towards the end and the Bible. Pretty short read, around 50 pages or so. You can listen to an audiobook of it here, though I didn’t read that translation (I read Andrew George) it is still neat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYf8AwNvKg

>>17848354
My copy of the story is in Lay of Beleriand, but the individual stories are
>Lay of the Children of Hurin
>Lay of Leithian
If you look them up there are individual wikipedia articles on each story confirming the titles. The Beleriend title is giving to that volume of History of Middle Earth

ENUMA ELISH OR MARDUK WILL RAAAAAAPE YOOOUUUUUU

149 If one is not negligent to Marduk, the Enlil of the gods,
150 May one's land flourish, and oneself prosper,
151 (For) his word is reliable, his command unchanged,
152 No god can alter the utterance of his mouth.
153 When he looks in fury, he does not relent,
154 When his anger is ablaze, no god can face him.
155 His mind is deep, his spirit is all-embracing,
156 Before whom sin and transgression are sought out.

!!!!!!!!!!!

>>17847556
Yeah

>>17848586
My bad, bro

>>17848625
You're good. I was actually just talking about this earlier today with people, concerning this passage and if Tolkien had read Lovecraft. We found out he did, but hated it. https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/cosmic-horror-and-tolkien/

>>17848662
I'm not surprised. Tolkien was a hardcore Catholic, to the point where he refused to do a vernacular mass, reciting the stuff in Latin even after Vatican II.

Get the Aenid by Douglas.
You will need the DSL to read.

>>17848594
>>17848604
Marduk annim likrub

>>17847468
great recommendation

>>17847397
the shahnameh is a great read, though its translations are lacking in vigor. it's fundamental to its respective cultural horizon, which consists of most of central asia and has influenced russia, china, and india which have each been in some way touched by steppe culture, in the way that Homer is to the West.

Everything shilled here is good. Endymion By Keats is also good, I hear great things about “Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude”

>>17847397
I'd say that this qualifies.

>>17847950
The Henriad was expressly written to be staged while Faust is a closet drama and is much more explicitly epic in scope and theme than any of Shakespeares plays, especially the second half. I'd argue it could be more properly called a crypto-epic than a play at all.

>>17851538
Not really an epic. More of a play styled after epics.

Which translation of the Iliad should I get? I know Fagles is the most popular but I've heard some negative things abou tit.

>>17851715
>Which translation of the Iliad should I get?
Caroline Alexander and E. V. Rieu are my personal favorites. Robert Fagles isn't bad, his editions have good introductions but the translation itself just doesn't always vibe well with me as poetry.

>>17847404
>The Aeneid
based

>>17847397

>>17847397
Listen to the audiobook of Seamus Heaney reading his translation of Beowulf.

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>>17850766
hell yeah, I was just about to complain that no one has read this. It occupies a very strange place in the landscape of 20th century book-poems.