/lit/ - Literature

Poets older than 14 need to shut the fuck up and write prose.

>>19609132
One of the most schizo things I've ever read, Pound was borderline raving madman

>>19609132
It varies widely. Milton and Yeats both wrote their most important work when they were advanced in age (in Yeats's case, he actually wrote his most famous poems after he won the Nobel Prize). Browning peaked in his 40s and 50s. Keats and Shelley both died quite young, and it's hard to say whether they would have declined had they grown older.

>>19609139
Cope.

>>19609132
I literally dont give a shit about the writings of anymore under 30

>When Milton writes
>>‘Him who disobeys me disobeys’
>he is, quite simply, doing wrong to his mother tongue. He meant
>>Who disobeys him, disobeys me.
>It is perfectly easy to understand WHY he did it, but his reasons prove that Shakespeare and several dozen other men were better poets. Milton did it because he was chock a block with Latin. He had studied his English not as a living language, but as something subject to theories.
>>Who disobeys him, disobeys me,
>doesn’t make good verse. The sound is better where the idiom is bad. When the writing is masterly one does NOT have to excuse it or to hunt up the reason for perpetrating the flaw.
>...
>Shakespeare was greatly indifferent. He was fanciful. He was a technical master. The gross and utter stupidity and obtuseness of Milton was never more apparent than in his supercilious reference to ‘Woodnotes wild’.

>>19609159
Well in the case of poetry you should

>A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
Was he right?

>>19609178
Miltons line sounds regal and majestic, Pounds like a threat from your boss at work

>>19609139
literally fucking this.
rimbaud peaked at 14-15, dante was like 16 when he finished his divina commedia, homer sang the iliad since he was born basically, chaucer, the troubadours were all teenagers when they composed their works

>>19609898
>dante was like 16 when he finished his divina commedia
?

>>19609898
100% this frfr tho, Shakespeare wrote his sonnets at 13, crazy shit bro

>>19609884
The proof is all around you.

>>19609884
>accuses Milton of terrible english
>"A people that grows"

>>19609995
It's correct retard

>>19609898
>dante finished the divine comedy the year prior to his death
>troubadours would fight entire crusades before composing works
>Rimbaud's greatest works were at the age of 18, youthful genius does happen to be a theme of his work, but his opinion was that the real poetry is living a life of adventure which he promptly did

>>19609132
What does it matter? None of you faggots actually write.

>>19610084
>>19609963
joke

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>>19610197
reddit

>>19610220
whoosh