Who is your favourite author, /lit/?
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>>8148125
Keats is literally the biggest meme.
>>8148298
Nah, not really. He's the best lyric poet in the English language.
>>8148125
>it's a "Romanticism should be part of the canon" episode
>>8149273
He has his parallels, so it's up to debate, but he is one of the most richly natural in his use of sound, intensity, and thematic coherence.
>>8149290
Huh? It is. The Romantic poets are all incredibly popular.
>>8148125
Pynchon but I'm only 20
>>8149428
>20
>Pynchon
Step up mang
Time to read Joyce and Gaddis
>>8148298
Sergeant: "All right, shut up, the Captain is going to give a talk on," (consults a tiny slip of paper), ".. Keats.. and I bet not one of you ignorant bastards knows what a keat is!"
- Spike Milligan's war memoirs
Nathanael West.
Lived fast, wrote well, died violently. What's not to like?