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| ITT we make a canon for the GOATs. Only Virgil or Aeschylus or Swinburne can pass. Here's some American nominations: | |
| >Alexander Theroux | |
| >Henry Adams | |
| >Charles Newman | |
| >Melville | |
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| >>21918187 (OP) | |
| Chiina Melville is from the UK | |
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| >>21918672 | |
| heh | |
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| I think Pindar would be a better option than Aeschylus among the Greeks if we don’t go for the obvious homer. | |
| If we’re allowed to count everything you GOTTA put Orpheus there. There’s a lot of kino Orphic material. | |
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| >>21918689 | |
| Is Guthrie still a decent book on the Orphic corpus? I was thinking of reading that and some recent compilations, after reading about the Derveni papyrus | |
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| >>21918690 | |
| It’s good I would argue even Thomas Taylor’s work on the eleusinian mysteries and Orphic hymns are still worth reading. | |
| TO PROTOGONUS, OR THE FIRST-BORN | |
| The Fumigation from Myrrh. | |
| O Mighty first-begotten [Protogonos], hear my pray'r, two-fold, egg-born, and wand'ring thro' the air, | |
| Bull-roarer, glorying in thy golden wings, from whom the race of Gods and mortals springs. | |
| Ericapæus [Erikapaios], celebrated pow'r, ineffable, occult, all shining flow'r. | |
| From eyes obscure thou wip'st the gloom of night, all-spreading splendour, pure and holy light | |
| Hence Phanes call'd, the glory of the sky, on waving pinions thro' the world you fly. | |
| Priapus, dark-ey'd splendour, thee I sing, genial, all-prudent, ever-blessed king, | |
| With joyful aspect on our rights divine and holy sacrifice propitious shine. | |
| TO PAN | |
| The Fumigation from Various Odors. | |
| I Call strong Pan, the substance of the whole, etherial, marine, earthly, general soul, | |
| Immortal fire; for all the world is thine, and all are parts of thee, O pow'r divine. | |
| Come, blessed Pan, whom rural haunts delight, come, leaping, agile, wand'ring, starry light; | |
| The Hours and Seasons [Horai], wait thy high command, and round thy throne in graceful order stand. | |
| Goat-footed, horned, Bacchanalian Pan, fanatic pow'r, from whom the world began, | |
| Whose various parts by thee inspir'd, combine in endless dance and melody divine. | |
| In thee a refuge from our fears we find, those fears peculiar to the human kind. | |
| Thee shepherds, streams of water, goats rejoice, thou lov'st the chace, and Echo's secret voice: | |
| The sportive nymphs, thy ev'ry step attend, and all thy works fulfill their destin'd end. | |
| O all-producing pow'r, much-senpai'd, divine, the world's great ruler, rich increase is thine. | |
| All-fertile Pæan, heav'nly splendor pure, in fruits rejoicing, and in caves obscure. | |
| True serpent-horned Jove [Zeus], whose dreadful rage when rous'd, 'tis hard for mortals to asswage. | |
| By thee the earth wide-bosom'd deep and long, stands on a basis permanent and strong. | |
| Th' unwearied waters of the rolling sea, profoundly spreading, yield to thy decree. | |
| Old Ocean [Okeanos] too reveres thy high command, whose liquid arms begirt the solid land. | |
| The spacious air, whose nutrimental fire, and vivid blasts, the heat of life inspire | |
| The lighter frame of fire, whose sparkling eye shines on the summit of the azure sky, | |
| Submit alike to thee, whole general sway all parts of matter, various form'd obey. | |
| All nature's change thro' thy protecting care, and all mankind thy lib'ral bounties share: | |
| For these where'er dispers'd thro' boundless space, still find thy providence support their race. | |
| Come, Bacchanalian, blessed power draw near, fanatic Pan, thy humble suppliant hear, | |
| Propitious to these holy rites attend, and grant my life may meet a prosp'rous end; | |
| Drive panic Fury too, wherever found, from human kind, to earth's remotest bound. | |
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| Hogg by Samuel Delany | |
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| >>21918707 | |
| Stfu faggot | |
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| >>21918689 | |
| Frater come to church at noon. It's a dominican parish on Lexington - there's coffee after if you want to chat | |
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| >>21918187 (OP) | |
| Wagner. | |
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| >>21918707 | |
| Just wanted to say, you're awesome dude. One of my favorite posters on this whole site. Thanks for your contributions over the years. | |
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| my boy eddie spenser | |
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| >>21919674 | |
| Just recently came home from church, Thanks for the invitation anyways! | |
| >>21920140 | |
| Thanks brother, it’s it’s fun to sperg ya know? Hope the thread shills some writers I don’t know desu | |
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| >>21918187 (OP) | |
| Li Bai has to be there somewhere. | |
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| >>21920974 | |
| Come out some other time. You won't be the only /lit/ user (there's at least three of us) | |