What does /lit/ think of Mencken? I've read some of his essays and rather enjoyed them. He had a way with words.
>>24881771He was great at dunking on politicians and the stupidity of the average burger.
>>24881771He's alright if sometimes coming off like an asshat. Good with verbiage and criticism yet falls short of the glory like so many others who challenge divinity, much like Nietzsche.
Proto-redditor. A yellow journalist who thought he was a philosopher.
>He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.Brutal. How did Harding ever recover?
>>24881875>pee pee poo poo he is a stupid headAmerican "wit".
Ronald Knox had an amusing chapter on Mencken in his book "Broadcast Minds".https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499617/page/n8/mode/1upBeware, the pages out of order in some parts.
>>24881892>typical yuropoor cattinessWhat a shocker.
>>24881771I like that he was friends with Dreiser. Left wingers and right wingers never try to be friends anymore.
>>24881875Reads like what an AI would come up with if I asked it to come up with a bunch of insults about my writing but put it into 1 paragraph.
I heard his book on Nietzsche was the one of the most accurate, clearest and easy to understand summary of his philosophy that was ever written.That true?
