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19017036

Anonymous Thu Sep 9 17:59:57 2021 No.19017036 [Reply] [Original]

What is the finest literature that came from Bong land?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:01:22 2021 No.19017046 >>19017036 First post for the trinity of shakespeare, milton, and chaucer

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:12:54 2021 No.19017115 >>19017036 'Arry Pott'r of course.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:15:04 2021 No.19017129 >>19017036 The works of Fr. Rolfe, 1st Baron Corvo (pbuh)

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:17:48 2021 No.19017152 >>19017036 Tom jones by henry fielding I wish /lit/ talks more about this book and 18th century literature in general

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:28:23 2021 No.19017228 Saxon poetry, like Beowulf or the battle of Maldon, is beautiful and translates very well. Retains a glottal and alliterative style.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:30:15 2021 No.19017242 >>19017115 this but unironically

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:41:52 2021 No.19017359 >>19017036 Tolkien

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:48:01 2021 No.19017406 >>19017036 Blake and Milton

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:48:47 2021 No.19017415 >>19017228 Based take

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:49:04 2021 No.19017417 Paradise Lost even though its arianism is heretical.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 19:02:46 2021 No.19017519 >>19017036 Powys

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 19:37:13 2021 No.19017722 >>19017036 The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Paradise Lost, The Anatomy of Melancholy, the works of Thomas Browne, and the poetry of Blake and Keats

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 19:48:16 2021 No.19017773 File: 74 KB, 640x640, 1527303712795.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19017036 The Wealth of Nations

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 19:52:15 2021 No.19017792 File: 1.56 MB, 3840x2160, jrr tolkien on bankers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tolkien, specifically The Silmarillion Any other post is absolutely kidding themselves

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 19:53:12 2021 No.19017802 >>19017152 agreed

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:01:18 2021 No.19017837 >>19017242 this but unicornically

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:08:28 2021 No.19017876 >>19017046 >>19017406 Milton was American.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:15:55 2021 No.19017910 >>19017876 Milton never left Europe.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:19:06 2021 No.19017924 >>19017910 Source?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:22:44 2021 No.19017944 >>19017359 This. Tolkien is canonical Western literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:23:16 2021 No.19017946 >>19017924 https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Milton/Early-translations-and-poems I don't know where you got the idea that Milton was American.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:27:30 2021 No.19017964 File: 21 KB, 593x517, PEPE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19017946 >he actually searched for sources

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:43:50 2021 No.19018026 >>19017036 Zadie Smith - White Teeth

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:51:23 2021 No.19018062 >>19017036 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:55:05 2021 No.19018079 >>19017946 Why would you trust a publication known as 'Britannica' to give you the truth about Milton's Americanness?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:58:09 2021 No.19018090 >>19017036 The Wind in the Willows

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 20:59:44 2021 No.19018099 >>19017036 Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton is the most important thing that country ever produced

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 21:01:57 2021 No.19018114 >>19017773 Smith was scotish

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 21:18:40 2021 No.19018207 >>19018114 a spiritual englishman. Like most scots of any note.