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Goethe and Kant aside, the 18th century was completely worthless w/r/t literature.
>>8234220
>shitting on Swift
outplebbing a five year old, well done OP
>>8234235
Swift and Sterne were curiosities, but can't bear the weight of a century on their backs alone.
>>8234246
lol, if you were trying to not look like an idiot, you failed.
while we're at it, swedenborg was praised by both kant and goethe as better than themselves
>>8234220
Dream of the Red Chamber dude
umm
>1800s
>bad
>>8234436
hello fellow redditor
>>8234440
18th century != 1800's
>>8234440
yikes
Yeah, it seems the Baroque period in general was an awkward transition from the Renaissance to the Romantic.
They were all a bunch of satirists and mannerist posers.
I think Alexander Pope is the best of the lot though:
Great Hector first amidst both armies broke
The solemn silence, and their powers bespoke:
"Hear, all ye Trojan, all ye Grecian bands,
What my soul prompts, and what some god commands.
Great Jove, averse our warfare to compose,
O'erwhelms the nations with new toils and woes;
War with a fiercer tide once more returns,
Till Ilion falls, or till yon navy burns.
You then, O princes of the Greeks! appear;
'Tis Hector speaks, and calls the gods to hear:
From all your troops select the boldest knight,
And him, the boldest, Hector dares to fight.
Here if I fall, by chance of battle slain,
Be his my spoil, and his these arms remain;
But let my body, to my friends return'd,
By Trojan hands and Trojan flames be burn'd.
And if Apollo, in whose aid I trust,
Shall stretch your daring champion in the dust;
If mine the glory to despoil the foe;
On Phoebus' temple I'll his arms bestow:
The breathless carcase to your navy sent,
Greece on the shore shall raise a monument;
Which when some future mariner surveys,
Wash'd by broad Hellespont's resounding seas,
Thus shall he say, 'A valiant Greek lies there,
By Hector slain, the mighty man of war,'
The stone shall tell your vanquish'd hero's name.
And distant ages learn the victor's fame."
This fierce defiance Greece astonish'd heard,
Blush'd to refuse, and to accept it fear'd.
>>8234246
>those two Irish guys were a blip
german who's also butthurt about Edmund Burke detected
>>8234436
His only notable contribution to the world is:
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desu
>>8234220
This was the beginning of Gothic literature, that's not worthless at all.
>>8234311
He's also a literally who, and only by the thinnest tangent related to literature.
>>8236000
Gothicism is the corniest and most sentimental shit, even cornier than Romanticism.
>>8236140
>i'm ignorant
>therefore everyone else must be
swedenborgian churches are still running, every stephen king fan has probably heard of swedenborgian space, and he's got a whole book from kant dedicated to him (which means your sucking off kant is without reading kant, kekekeke).
that's before you factor in yeats, blake, jung, emerson, and balzac all list him as a major influence.
you're more pleb than a stephen king fan, or a five year old now. keep digging, I want to see if you're dumb enough to need velcro laces on more than your shoes.
>>8236166
I'm also sure goethe and kant both took shits, would you call taking a shit the best literature the 1700s has to offer?
Fuckin checkm8
giacomo leopardi
schiller
stirner
nietzsche
schopenhauer
ugo foscolo
byron
coleridge
gotthelf
verdi
baudelaire
rimbaud
jerry
poe
marx
bakunin
positivism in general (best meme movement with hegelian one)
verga
byron
flaubert [...]
>>8236174
kek so much butthurt for being so wrong. so so wrong. and so many years reading before you'll even be competent XD
if you want to read about shitting, you should go back to the 16th C and start with montaigne.
>>8236175
just so you know- 18th century = 1700s
Defoe, Fielding, Pope?
Voltaire, Rousseau, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, Benjamin Franklin et al.
>Sterne
>Pope
>Blake
>Swift
>Richardson
>Prévost
>Laclos
>Chénier
>Beaumarchais
>Marivaux
>Diderot
That's pretty good
>>8236175
This is 19th century.
>>8236742
>Pope
>>8234220
Point taken. Worth is measured differently by any given individual though.
>>8234220
>w/r/t
jesus christ
