Should I read Paradise Lost before reading Moby Dick? Would it clairify or enhance the text to enough of a degree to justify putting Moby Dick on the shelf or should I just start squeezing the sperm as soon as possible?
I have the Norton Critical edition of both.
Should I read Paradise Lost before reading Moby Dick...
Gabriel Evans
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Joseph White
What, they're hardly related, Paradise Lost is something to study as well
Landon Cooper
If you have the critical edition of Moby Dick, it will point out all the literary references anyway, not that they're crucial to understanding or enjoying the book. Whichever one you read first, they are both absolutely 10/10 godtier masterpieces so you can't go wrong.
Samuel Anderson
>asking anonymous users on a japanese image board whether to read the works of a blind and mad puritan attempting to justify the ways of god to men, or the greatest and most serious novel ever written in the latest hundred and fifty years on the american continent
kill yourself and approach these authors with more of the respect they deserve in your next life
jesus fucking christ gaddis was right about everything
"should I buy download this bach or mozart collection for my iPod on the way to school?"
mentally ill painters flinging shit at canvases didn't destroy art, you did
Dominic Hughes
Autism.
Oliver Nguyen
Thank you, I figured so (especially considering the dozens of works he lifted from, why just the one), but wanted to get some different opinions before I jumped in.
Easton Flores
a sane post on Veeky Forums, I can't almost believe my eyes
Just read the damn book nigger
Asher Reyes
You had a point up until Bach vs Mozart, because Bach is a completely skippable composer.
Mozart is the objectively correct choice in that case.
Zachary Peterson
t. mathlet
Zachary Scott
>gaddis was right about everything
What are you referring to?
Eli Cooper
youtube.com
watch this, you'll get all the references you need
Leo Hernandez
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Isaac Jenkins
no u
Isaiah Lopez
t. brainlet
Ethan Butler
You should read pl before md because it is the superior work, and the one to which almost all English lit is indebted, Melville being just one, and by no means the most important, of a long list.
The first 3-4 books are some of the best things written in English, really dark and terrifying and beautiful. You'll end up falling in gay love with Satan, and that's a hard thing for any writer to do.
You can read Melville later; Ahab is a thin watery shadow of Milton's Satan.
Kayden Lewis
>>blind and mad puritan
why are you even on this board? you obviously can't fucking read you spasticated american dog
Aaron Rivera
Should I read the Bible before Paradise Lost?
Christopher Anderson
Should I read the Epic of Gilgamesh before the Bible?
Colton Garcia
Fucking no
Brayden Phillips
Yes
No
Wyatt Sanders
Yes.
Grayson Hernandez
wrong
Michael Gray
>Bach vs Mozart
They are both entry level composers.
Andrew Green
this but literally unironically
Alexander Ward
Should I read summerian tablets before Epic of Gilgamesh?