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Let's assume I have a silly dream. Let's assume I want to learn by heart one million of the best verse ever written in human history. Which poems would I have to pick ? I this formulation suits you more, which are the best pieces of poetry according to you ? I know it is a matter of taste, but some work are definitely considered more achieved and more important than most by most of the world. My list already includes:
-The Illiad and the Odyssey
-The Ramayana and the Mahabharata
-The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost
-Beowulf and le Roman de la Rose
Would you add anything to this list, /lit/ ? A Chinese poem maybe ? Most poems on the list above are epics, because they tend to be long and old and as such more influential, but I'm not against other forms of poetry.
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>>9165633
Alexander Pope's 'Essay of Man.'
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The Poems of Jesus Christ. It's an actual book.
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>not becoming a seanchai
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Since you're naming them in pairs, I would add the Orlando Furioso by Ariosto and Jerusalem Deliveres by Tasso.
Don't know much about China and Japan, sorry.
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>>9165763
*Delivered
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classic of poetry for china
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Unless you actually plan to remember all these in their original languages, it's a gayass dream
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Faust
The Four Quartets
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>>9165794
give me names pls
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>>9165633
Well it would be pointless to memorize a translation so half of those are realistically out
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>>9165957
>Let's assume I have a silly dream.
>Let's assume
>Let's
>assume
Learn to read m8.
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>>9165929
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Poetry
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>>9165957
This is one of my dreams. I will probably never make it real, but just learning one or two of those languages would be worth it. I can also resort to the basic method of learning verses in a language I can vaguely pronounce but I don't understand, like Borges with finnish and romanian.
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>>9165970
Thanks.
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>>9165771
*conquered
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Keats' great odes
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>>9167689
Yeah, I don't think so.
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