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>>8641594
I can't pretend to be much of a judge of poetry, I'm an English teacher not a homosexual.

Anon, why do you keep making this thread? Are you using this information to hack /lit/ or something?

Fine, my three favorite Yeats poems, sorted by his early, middle, and late periods are:
Early: The Dim Mist About Medb's Tresses
Middle: A Patched-Up Pair of Trousers Sold at a Second-Hand Store for 3/11
Late: Kissing the Shades at 72

I'm actually a big-time Yeats fanboy as well, but I already gave my favorites the last time you posted this.

>>8641609
This is my first time posting here in a long time.

>>8641560
>three logos vertical
>all the rest horizontal
WHYYYYY

>>8641618
horizontal looks better but some of the books are too thin

>>8641560
I'm hoping for this as well. I've asked a couple of times fairly recently and nobody has helped out.

RSVP, by Pentel

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Go chinkshit or go home.

>>8641521
I don't have nice enough penmenship to do that tool any service.

>Edward Thomas

He veers into modernist experimentation in his prosody occasionally but in terms of themes and content he's like Thomas Hardy. Criminally ignored, I think.

>>8641484
I think there isn't really a clear cut boundary between romanticism and modernism. At any rate, many romantic ideas of art persist to the present day. Anyway I'd recommend Wallace Stevens.

Hamsun, except he started with symbolist/modernist leanings and became a neo-romantic.

>>8641207
I like both

>>8641207
Both

>>8641207
Aristotle. Plato was 10 times the writer that Aristotle was tho.

>>8641042

Let the right one in.
A bit.

>>8641047
Oh actually I would say that is in line with what I am looking for but they both seem pretty exceptional among the subject of vampires in my experience.

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>>8641042
I did enjoy Fevre Dream. It's a bit of an uncommon setting for a Vampire Story but it works pretty well.
Only lovers left alive and Let the right one in are pretty great. Liked them both.

If you have a computer that is less than 15 years old you can also play: "Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines" which is widely considered to be one of the very best PC games there are. It is set in the "World of Darkness" role playing universe which has a pretty interesting setup for all kinds of different vampire "clans" each with their own strengths and weaknesses. If you do end up picking up you need to download an unofficial fan patch, because back in the day activision rushed the studio to release the game in a buggy state and then closed them down due to poor sales performance before they could really fix it. The fan patch comes in two variants: pure bugfixing to make the shipped game run smootly and a second "plus" version where they tried to restore content that was in the files originally but hasn't been put into the game as it was unfished. Despite the game coming out in 2004 the fan patch still gets updated pretty regularly, with the newest update just coming out last month.

Start with the history plays, esp the ones he wrote early on, when he was still learning, a lot of the exchanges between characters are about concrete information and it'll help you get used to the language. As shakespeare wrote, his language got fancier and fancier, so read his early plays first, and between comedys, tragedies, and histories, the histories are the most straightforward. I saw a chart that said start with Hamlet. Wouldnt recommend that. Not only are there plenty other plays that are easier to read, Hamlet is the longest play. Four hours long unabridged.

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>>8641007
Not really, there's pic related but you can start from whichever you like. You can go chronologically, generically, even thematically.

I personally recommend a simple one like, such as Romeo and Juliet or Richard III, since both of them are rather early works and lack a subplot, so you can get a feeling of what Shakespeare is like before going into the denser stuff.

As for editions, I recommend the Arden series, but some people are turn off by the amount of annotations. If you are one of those, you may like the Oxford or New Cambridge ones.

You should watch a lot of Shakespeare and then study the written scripts. There is beauty in both forms, but I believe they were intended for the stage; maybe this philosophy can resonate with you and you could use this as an excuse to encounter some very enjoyable productions beit play or even film. I haven't read all of his work but this method has been enriching in many ways.

>>8640683
Why?

>>8640708

I just can't understand how someone can make a race and nuclear war so incredibly boring.

With MacIntyre, Anscombe, Oderberg, Feser, Geach, Ratzinger, Stein reading Girard seems so unappealing. French postmodern Catholicism sounds like a waste of time desu lad.

>>8640587
Okay, but why? French postmodern Catholicism actually sounds pretty good to me some days - and to be honest, I usually skew heavily on the atheist/agnostic side of things.

Enlighten me, you sexy bastard. You sound like you know what you're talking about. What do you find unappealing about Girard? And why?

>>8640620
I find the break from augustinian and thomistic traditions unappealing in general, whenever it's about a Catholic philosopher. The break from language, introduction of unnecessary concepts that are interesting, but not in the least substantial, the focus on something extremely specific and hardly applicable outside theology alone. This isn't of course a final judgement, it's just an impression I got from reading a few larger articles on First Things a year or so ago when I was looking into him.
The main reason is, I'm a law student with aspirations to writing about essentialism in context of law and bioethics as I see the lack of any sort of philosophy as guide makes it incredibly arbitrary and based in ideological rhetoric instead of a firm and fair intellectual basis.
Girard is just someone so specific I cannot see how I can even broadly apply him to my thinking.
The authors I've listed are incredibly substantial, MacIntyre changed my outlook on many things and I haven't even read all of Aquinas and if I want to achieve my goals, I'll have to keep reading into those. Girard just doesn't seem to compare.
I could be wrong of course.

You're beyond saving, go watch Hollywood movies or something

>>8640272
lol reading genre fiction

>>8640272
I, Robot.
Best sci-fi.

>>8640186
>What was happening inside his brain
>>>/sci/
And never go back.

>>8640186
>especial

>>>/sci/ indeed


also
>He was good at it from the start
no he wasnt, Dido sucked

probably tons of weed
all smart people do drugs

>>8639948
>no Kant
opinion discarded

>>8639948
He'd probably agree desu, a lot of his stuff is reiterating and reinterpreting Hegel.

don't know who that is, but that introduction is poorly written.

>>8639835
I found no problem with any of his books that I've read. Have you ever tried just saying 'ok thats ur opinion and while I think ur a faggot for holding such an opinion I respect ur right to it now fuck off and let me read My murakami.'

>>8639835

Is this from the book girl anime this season, how is it so far?

>>8639835
Murukami? More like Memekami!
Amirite, fellas?

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>>8639382
Current most patrician submission.

>When people mix up homophones, like they're and their or pale and pail
Holy shit I get toasty when I see people do this. The worst one by far is when people mix up peak, peek, and pique. God damn, it's not that hard.

Could of, should of etc
Not knowing the difference between loose and lose
Momento
Not knowing the difference between are and our

>read the first two posts
>already raging