>name is literally GOATWas he not the greatest of all time?
>>25189024Goat,heh ;)
>>25189024If I can't read him in the original German, what would be the best work for me to start with? Is "The Sorrows of Young Werther" the best place to start or would you recommend something else?
>>25189024It is time for the Goethic period to make a come back
>>25189079still faust
>>25189024Shakespeare soulmogs Goatse
>>25189326you did read it in german, right?
>>25189330Yep, the Schlegel–Tieck translations
>>25189333your evasion is pretty telling
Hard to say, it’s between Milton, Shakespeare, Dante and him. I don’t feel like you can rank those men.
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>>25189602Petrarch mogs Dante. If Eliot understood this he‘d probably have written more than one incredible poem which was largely Pound‘s work anyway.
>>25189617Pound, the guy that violently detested Petrarch as a corrupter of poetry...
>>25189602Shakespeare yes Dante no because Melville mogs him
>>25189651Wow, a Melville fan with a retarded opinion. Imagine my surprise. Let me guess, you also like McCarthy?
>>25189024That would be Homer
>>25189079Werther is fine as a start.>>25189319You don't have to start with the best work.
>>25189079I hated Werther, but that's probably because I had to read it in school. Faust and some of his poetry is cool though.
>>25189651That’s fucking stupid. Melville is brilliant but you can’t very well compare these men with different styles; though he isn’t dissimilar from Shakespeare. If I were myself going to place some more modern writers among those greats, I’d only place him, Tolstoy, Joyce and Proust. Nobody else has ever reached the heights of Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Milton.
>>25189024Gerter
>>25189337Methinks the anglomutt doth be miscomprehending.
>>25189658Hey now, his opinion is retarded but Melville is brilliant; shut your mouth.
>>25189079English from German is always better in translation than it ever was in German anyway.If it's translated to Swedish that's even more beautiful. (As is English into Swedish.)
>>25189024yeah he be da goat n shiet nigga got those bars in dem books like that one about the sorrows of a yung nigga nietzsche vibed with this nigga he was a real g dont mess with my fucking goat yall bitch ass niggas
>>25189857This manner of conduct ill beseems you, anon.
>>25189862shut up nigga
