Does anyone read classical literature any more?
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Re: Does anyone read classical literature any more?
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I have and still do read "classics". Conrad would be my favourite author. Dickens remains a personal challenge for me. Hardy is excellent; his poetry is as good as his novels.
I think I preferred The Odyssey to The Iliad. Beowulf, and the Eddas from Iceland, are some of my favourites.
More people should read classics. Besides the excellent writing, they offer a view into the past that modern authors cannot capture.
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Victor Hugo, I found I got to appreciate even his long descriptions of places.
The Bronte sisters, life lessons to learn.
Jane Austin, not my all favourite but still enjoyable.
Iliad and Odyssey, I read them after finishing school, because while in school I found them boring. The Odyssey is better, I find.
Then every now and then I pick up some others to have a break between a fantasy and a horror
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Best prose = Vladimir Nabokov ( Exceptional prose, which is incredible given English was his second language )
Most unique = Virginia Woolf ( She was a master of Stream of Consciousness type of prose )
Best Eastern writer = Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ( The Makioka Sisters is simply splendid )
Political Science = Niccolo Machiavelli ( The Prince is a monumental work of political science, tied with The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes )
There is a lot more like Nietzsche, CS Lewis, Tolkien, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Hobbes, Soseki and so on its really hard to pick between them all.
I feel like every old master has some singularities in their style that makes their work unique and great.
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The last year I re-read Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Around the world in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
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I also love the classic poets: Thoreau, Wordsworth, Whitman...
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HUGE fan of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte!
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What do you all think of Edgar Allan Poe?
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