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Crime and Punishment by Fyodork Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodork Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamakov by Fyodork Dostoevsky
War and Piece by Fyodork Dostoevsky

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Troublin'ers by Jambalaya Joyce
A Portrait of the Hipster as a Young Poser by Jambalaya Joyce
Ulysshit by Jambalaya Joyce
Emperor Finnegan's New Clothes by Jambalaya Joyce

>> No.10326914

Dostoevsky is nobody's favorite author.

>> No.10326921

Elizabethan England? Please- I’ll grant you Shakespeare, Milton, & above both- John Donne. Who comes next? No 1 that can reasonably be granted greatness. The assorted Dynastic periods of China? Tu Fu & Li Po I’ll grant, & perhaps Po-Chu-I, but you’re stretching the definition of an age when it spans centuries, & after those 3 you are left with ‘poets’ who wore that appellation about as neatly as a Joyce Carol Oates- most were routine scribes who wrote routine verse. Haiku? Bashō, Buson, Issa- then who? Not to mention that 3 line haikus- even at their best- simply cannot match the depth, complexity, nor music of even a sonnet. Latin American poets in the early-mid 20th Century? There are a few greats- Paz, Neruda, Huidobro come to mind- but most were just political hacks- bumper sticker writers. The French Symbolists? Mallarme & who else? The Romantics? Hmm….England- Shelley, Keats, perhaps Coleridge & Wordsworth. Forget Byron or Clare- the rest fall off a cliff. Perhaps the German Romantics? Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Holderlin, Heine? Puh-leeze! Perhaps the Soviet Era poets of Russia? Pasternak, Mandelstam, & Tsvetaeva are greats, while Akhmadulina, & Akhmatova were pretty good. Don’t even try to make a claim for the propagandist Mayakovsky.
Now, here’s a pretty good list of the major American poets who were writing & came to fame during the 1910-1970 period: Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robinson Jeffers, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, e.e. cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Edwin Rolfe, Charles Olson, Robert Hayden, John Berryman, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, James Emanuel, W.D Snodgrass, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Anne Sexton, Weldon Kees, & Sylvia Plath come to mind without much effort. & some could argue this list is only ½ or ⅓ its proper length.

>> No.10326935

>>10326757
Book of Disquiet is Pessoa at his worst but plebs insist on thinking it's his best for some autistic incomprehensible reason.

>> No.10326939

>>10326935
It is his best though...

>> No.10326949

>>10326939
t. Mula

>> No.10327111

my diary desu

>> No.10327130

>>10326757
Can't agree more.

>> No.10327137

>>10326907
Seconded.

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>>10326914
Brainlet

>> No.10327146

>>10326921
Is this pasta? Because it's bretty triggering.