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Anonymous Sat Oct 27 07:45:56 2018 No.11994966 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Literature that's aged like wine

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 07:52:04 2018 No.11994974 Everything old that we've heard of

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 12:49:51 2018 No.11995694 I see how it is

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 12:54:11 2018 No.11995709 File: 29 KB, 396x520, grcover4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11994966

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 12:55:08 2018 No.11995712 File: 104 KB, 636x800, John-milton.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11994966 If you get to be the Pope-poster, I want to be the Milton-poster. >the year of our lord 1667 >still writing in rhyme to hide lame meter and wicked matter >mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 12:59:51 2018 No.11995729 >>11995709 Pynchon was undoubtedly influenced by Pope in GR >>11995712 oh dear

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 13:21:32 2018 No.11995789 >>11994966 based pope based popeposter based manlets

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 13:53:01 2018 No.11995916 File: 168 KB, 1200x1472, Samuel_Johnson_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11994966 >>11995712 Calm down, fuckers, Johnson says you're both beautiful and worthy of love.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 13:55:53 2018 No.11995931 >>11995916 johnson is truly ourguy more than anybody else

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 14:02:54 2018 No.11995942 File: 19 KB, 442x556, Edmund_Burke_by_James_Northcote.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11995931 The English Renaissance and Enlightenment both had a lot of really great writers and thinkers that we sometimes forget about these days.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:10:07 2018 No.11996441 >>11994966 I started reading Pope because of Popeposter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:13:37 2018 No.11996454 >>11995916 In the end though Johnson's own poetry (which is great) was modeled on Pope.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:22:49 2018 No.11996484 >>11996441 What have you read? What are your thoughts?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:24:38 2018 No.11996491 >>11996484 Not him, but a few niche works by him that I liked were the prologue to the play Cato by Addison, as well as his epitaph to Newton.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:25:43 2018 No.11996494 >>11996484 Currently reading An Essay on Man, I really like it. I'm pleasantly surprised. I thought OP was being ironic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:29:39 2018 No.11996511 >>11995916 Johnson is so based

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:45:43 2018 No.11996558 >>11996511 here is a fuckload of Johnson if youre interested lad https://ia902609.us.archive.org/24/items/workssamueljohn62murpgoog/workssamueljohn62murpgoog.pdf

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 16:53:38 2018 No.11996579 >>11996558 In my view the best physical copy is the Yale edition of his works, but because they're scholarly editions the retail price is $125 per volume, and there are 17 volumes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 17:00:40 2018 No.11996605 File: 19 KB, 400x400, CSYf9TzWsAAf-Fg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11996579 >$125 i will stick to my shoddily scanned pdfs

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 18:29:11 2018 No.11996937 >>11996579 You do know the entire Yale edition of Johnson's works is online for free, right? http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/node/1

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 18:30:10 2018 No.11996939 >>11995709 Cringe

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 18:36:02 2018 No.11996965 >>11996939 Based dumbass

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 18:44:50 2018 No.11996999 File: 119 KB, 1080x1080, 35673566.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11996939 And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 27 18:45:19 2018 No.11997004 File: 5 KB, 243x250, 1511266302289.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11994966 >His nickname is Popeposter >Pope -> Popo Pepe >Poo poo pee pee Are they same the person?