Any good books ON the greats? Books on Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes,

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>>8585621
Unlike the jibbering, effemninate, impious mess of incoherent oral tradition that is the """Holy""" Bible, the masculine, direct style of Homer requires no interpreter. For he wrote in accordance with the memory of the Daughter of Zeus herself.
Nor is there any need to scour one's imagination to know Homer's meaning- he means what he says, the events he narrates actually happened as described, and we draw lessons not from the biased fiction of allegory but from raw history told by a master. Contrast this to """Holy""" Bible, which needed to wait milennia for a Canaanite to explain that Solomon and Abraham actually had his own morality of antisexualism, a thousand more years for an Italian to explain that it was all equivocation, and then another thousand for everyone nowadays to realize that it's an allegory- though for what even they can't say.

You could spend your lifetime simply just reading secondary lit on Homer. Another on Shakes. Just yesterday I saw someone say that the entire western canon is Shakespeare fanfiction. Before him, there was only Homeric denominations.

>>8585621
it's kinda hard to keep books atop living persons like that for a very long time

i guess for the Bible you could find plenty of examples though

>>8586672
There's more than uno definition of "one."

>>8586539
>You could spend your lifetime simply just reading secondary lit on Homer.
That's the plan.

>>8585621
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson
Dante: From Here to Eternity by Prue Shaw

Anything on Cervantes?

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Let's get the memeing started.

>>8587163
Shakespeare’s Imagery, by Caroline Spurgeon;
>Shakespeare’s Language, by Frank Kermode;
>Shakespeare’s Metrical Art, by George T. Wright;
>The Development of Shakespeare’s imagery, by Wolfgang Clemen;
>The Poetry of Shakespeare’s Plays, by F.E. halliday;
>Shakespeare’s Uses of The Arts of Language, by Sister Mirian Joseph;
>The Language of Shakespeare’s Plays, by B. Ifor Evans