>start with the Greeks >start with Harold Bloom's

>>9711291
Good ol' Paradife Loft

>>9711302
There's nothing funny about Early Modern Englifh spelling.

anglo literature is inferior

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>>9711328
I wonder who was behind this post

>>9711328
Inferior to what, retard?

blank verse

>>9711291
Replace (((bible))) with Chapman's homer
Replace paradise loft with Golding's Metamorphoses
Replace pilgrim with canterbury tales

I mean, read whatever you want, but homer is one of the most influential authors of all time, anyone who is interested in understanding 90% of the classics should read homer.

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>>9711497
>he thinks Homer was a real person

>>9711572
Nigga, you know what I mean. Whatever person/group of people wrote the odyssey and iliad is personified as homer, so I refer to them as homer, because it would be autistic to continually say "Whatever person/group of people wrote the odyssey and iliad" instead of just saying homer.

>>9711628
i know shamalafam i was just fucking around

>>9711291
t. Butthurt Christfag

You forgot Ovid, by the way.

>>9711477
>Replace pilgrim with canterbury tales

This, or at least with the Vision of Piers Plowman.

>>9711291
>These standards are Anglo standards.
Disgusting

>>9711291
>paradise Lost
>The Pilgrim's Progress
How are these important at all? If anything, books from the writers you named are needed to understand them.

>>9711952
Paradise Lost has exerted a profound influence on English poetry and language and once was a book owned by every English speaker from New South Wales to the Shetland Islands.

Pilgrim's Progress also reached a wide audience, even moreso than the First Folio and Paradise Lost, and profoundly influenced the English novel and language.

>>9711672
No, I put Virgil because he was far more important and influential. I listed authors who most significantly influenced their native language and literature. Plato is there because of his profound influence on Attic Greek language and culture whereas Homer, if I recall correctly, was from one of the Anatolian regions. Essentially everyone from the Anglosphere MUST start with what I have put. It's not a coincidence my books are more Christ-centered: early modern Anglo culture was more Christ-centered than classical in the 16th and 17th centuries. The elite in the 18th century adored classical works, but at the end of the day they were Christians. By the 19th we were back to being Jesus freaks. Atheism and postmodernism are continental heresies.

>>9711477
>>9711936
The works you've mentioned are great, but they did not influence Anglo civilization and culture anywhere close to the extent my canon has.