Who is the literary equivalent of the GOAT?
Shakey
>>23632300Dante or Homer. Just as you can get everything in poetry from Homer, you can get everything in music from Bach. But Homer was a pagan and Bach a Christian. So perhaps, a figure no lower in majesty, the more correct equivalent would be Dante, who gave the highest expression to the Christian religion in his art, with unparalleled formal perfection, and a piercing intensity of expression.
>>23632300Gryphius
>>23632300bump
>>23632300Exterminatus
>>23632316Nobody gives a fuck about your retarded ass 2000 year old cult boomboom
>>23633122Bach did, and lovers of Bach do.
>>23632316when it comes to both, which translations would you recommend?
>>23633138Lattimore for Homer, Longfellow for Dante.
>>23633148thank you. any reason why?
>>23633267Lattimore's the most accurate while retaining a high literary quality, and Longfellow's is by far the preferred English translation by anyone of taste. It's good literature.
>>23633323thanks man. appreciate it.
>>23633323>reading translation
