Ay anon, please, please, if you still live with your parents and are young ask them to pay for their and psychiatric help. If you are on your own go as soon as possible, having that short attention span is going to be a huge bump for always in your life road. Please sense my kindness and seek help.
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Black person I don't live with my parents. Frick you. Didn't bother to read the rest.
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How did you even find IQfy, and what are you doing here? I'm beginning to understand why IQfy ain't what it used to be.
NTA but you will be if you put in the time to just study a single play thoroughly. Macbeth is a good play to start with. If you're not understanding everything, then you cannot claim as of yet that it's not entertaining. Come back when you understand it and then say it's boring.
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>what am I supposed to get out of it?
You'll never get it because you're inferior, I mean that sincerely. Just come to terms with the fact that you're a midwit and go back to IQfy. You'll be happier in the end.
This is bullshit man. I'm not the kind of person you think I am.
>what am I supposed to get out of it?
You'll never get it because you're inferior, I mean that sincerely. Just come to terms with the fact that you're a midwit and go back to IQfy. You'll be happier in the end.
I read voraciously, the canon is my beloved and yet Shakespeare is the only canonical author I get nothing from, no knowledge, enjoyment, philosophy, dept. I just cannot understand what is going on with the world? How can we compare plato, dickens, Chaucer with a drunk plays for poor people?
You're just a fraud. It's as simple as that. You have no native Russian language or narcissistic genius to excuse your misapprehension of English poetry like Tolstoy. If your apparently 'voracious' reading didn't supply you with the tools to understand Shakespeare then you weren't really reading it all, just having words filter through your head and enjoying the stories I guess?
>How can we compare plato, dickens, Chaucer with a drunk plays for poor people?
This is a fundamental misunderstanding based on years of people repeating this shit, but you know that Queen Elizabeth and King James would have his troupe come to the court for private performances too, right? That Elizabeth loved the characterof Falstaff, and that Macbeth was shaped in part to appeal to James' interests in the occult? Shakespeare wasn't some 16th/17th century equivalent of Michael Bay, he appealed broadly, melding old lengendary stories from English history or Plutarch's Lives with insights drawn from Montaigne. Compare him with Jonson and Marlowe, and (mind, I think Jonsn and Marlowe are great) his virtues as a writer, plotter, and author of character shine much brighter. Not in every play, and with variance, but he's much more than some dumb tv equivalent for drunks.
Are you serious? Dickens and Chaucer are deeply in touch with lower-class, popular sensibility, I'd have a hard time thinking of two worse authors to make that particular point. Evaluating someone based on who you've been told their "fan base" was is stupid regardless. Point out what's lacking in the text itself or else don't offer an opinion.
Swedenborg was huge during this period. Blake, Kant, Baudelaire, Emerson and Yeats among others were influenced by him. His being memory-holed is interesting.
Swedenborg was huge during this period. Blake, Kant, Baudelaire, Emerson and Yeats among others were influenced by him. His being memory-holed is interesting.
I don't even have enough of an attention span to read that entire list lol
It's for a lifetime, friend.
No I mean the literal list in OP's pic. I read like the first three or four names and then I got distracted.
Ay anon, please, please, if you still live with your parents and are young ask them to pay for their and psychiatric help. If you are on your own go as soon as possible, having that short attention span is going to be a huge bump for always in your life road. Please sense my kindness and seek help.
Black person I don't live with my parents. Frick you. Didn't bother to read the rest.
How did you even find IQfy, and what are you doing here? I'm beginning to understand why IQfy ain't what it used to be.
Shakespeare is boring...
Incorrect
Why can't anyone here actually explain it to me
Like what am I supposed to get out of it? I'm not entertained when I read it.
NTA but you will be if you put in the time to just study a single play thoroughly. Macbeth is a good play to start with. If you're not understanding everything, then you cannot claim as of yet that it's not entertaining. Come back when you understand it and then say it's boring.
This is bullshit man. I'm not the kind of person you think I am.
You should be shot. Like a dog.
>what am I supposed to get out of it?
You'll never get it because you're inferior, I mean that sincerely. Just come to terms with the fact that you're a midwit and go back to IQfy. You'll be happier in the end.
Legitimately moronic.
filtered
I read voraciously, the canon is my beloved and yet Shakespeare is the only canonical author I get nothing from, no knowledge, enjoyment, philosophy, dept. I just cannot understand what is going on with the world? How can we compare plato, dickens, Chaucer with a drunk plays for poor people?
You're just a fraud. It's as simple as that. You have no native Russian language or narcissistic genius to excuse your misapprehension of English poetry like Tolstoy. If your apparently 'voracious' reading didn't supply you with the tools to understand Shakespeare then you weren't really reading it all, just having words filter through your head and enjoying the stories I guess?
>How can we compare plato, dickens, Chaucer with a drunk plays for poor people?
This is a fundamental misunderstanding based on years of people repeating this shit, but you know that Queen Elizabeth and King James would have his troupe come to the court for private performances too, right? That Elizabeth loved the characterof Falstaff, and that Macbeth was shaped in part to appeal to James' interests in the occult? Shakespeare wasn't some 16th/17th century equivalent of Michael Bay, he appealed broadly, melding old lengendary stories from English history or Plutarch's Lives with insights drawn from Montaigne. Compare him with Jonson and Marlowe, and (mind, I think Jonsn and Marlowe are great) his virtues as a writer, plotter, and author of character shine much brighter. Not in every play, and with variance, but he's much more than some dumb tv equivalent for drunks.
Are you serious? Dickens and Chaucer are deeply in touch with lower-class, popular sensibility, I'd have a hard time thinking of two worse authors to make that particular point. Evaluating someone based on who you've been told their "fan base" was is stupid regardless. Point out what's lacking in the text itself or else don't offer an opinion.
It's an okay-ish list.
No essential reading list is complete without Ambilichus, Türhauer, and Beauregard.
>Swedenborg
Why
Hegel had Boehme, Kant had Sneedenborg.
Swedenborg was huge during this period. Blake, Kant, Baudelaire, Emerson and Yeats among others were influenced by him. His being memory-holed is interesting.
https://swedenborgsociety.wordpress.com/about/emanuel-swedenborg/writers-influenced-by-swedenborg/
Aristotle fricking sucks. Good choices otherwise.
Aristotle's "Poetics" needs reading, to understand how literature even works.
I had in mind the science and logic stuff.
That's even worse. Guy invented logic and the scientific method. Your opinion of him literally doesn't matter.
Do you really need it to learn that. Some of it (I'm thinking the unities in particular) is just nonsense.
I'm sure you can give a detailed explanation of why such a monumental thinker 'sucks'. Take your time, I'll read everything you right.
Plotinus is only essential if you want to become moronic.
More? More what? We're talking specifics and he lists more...
More Milton lad, he means that however much Milton you've read, you must read more.
Jamblichus sounds like a dessert