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Modernism is leaving me cold. I'd like to read something written by people that still believe that life can be OK sometimes. Where to start? I can get anything, right now I've got the complete works of Lord Byron, but I don't know if that's a good place to start.

>> No.14478683

You read them
Like you do for any author

>> No.14478690

>>14478663
Start with Blake, then Coleridge and Wordsworth (read the Prelude), and then move on to Shelley, Byron, Keats et al.

>> No.14478691

>>14478683
Yes, but who first? And how? Do I read it aloud? Should I read slowly and analytically, or quickly? That sort of thing.

>> No.14478713

>>14478691
just read it bro

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>> No.14478728

>>14478691
Coleridge you should read aloud because his metric skill is based. Byron you should read like a trashy romance. Blake is one to take your time with and read aloud and try to get mystical over. Shelley has a lot of stuff outside poetry too so you should take those analytically, but his poetry is comfy to read aloud and doesn't require much digging unlike Blake. Anon's order here>>14478690 is pretty solid for the English Romantics, but if you want to get deeper into the ideas behind it you'll have to look at Burke and Schopenhauer on the sublime, and Rousseau and Diderot and Schiller and Goethe's body of works.

>> No.14478750

>>14478663
Was Byron a bisexual or just a sexual deviant, pedophile?

>> No.14478762

>>14478728
Cool, that's the kind of advice I was looking for. Thanks.

>> No.14478841

>>14478750
Bit of both with a side of incest thrown in

>> No.14480229

>>14478750
>>14478841
he was based
>...he confided his tendresse for Lady Charlotte, ‘whom I should love forever if she could always be only eleven years old — & whom I shall probably marry when she is old enough & bad enough to be made into a modern wife’. - MacCarthy F. (2014). Byron: Life and Legend.

>> No.14480362

>>14478750
She esa BASED. That's all you need to know

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/thread

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>Read the modernists before the romantics

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>>14478663
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>> No.14481171

Read in any order, but here's a quick list of the main works. Also, buy Oxford Major Works of poets, they're pretty good.
Percy Shelley -
The Revolt of Islam
Queen Mab
Prometheus Unbound
Ozymandias

Byron-
Don Juan
Childe Harold
She Walks in Beauty

Keats-
Anything with "Ode" in the title. Also, learn what an Ode is before reading them.

Wordsworth-
Prelude
Daffodils
Tintern Abbey

Coleridge-
Conversation Poems (there's six)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kubla Kahn