Is reading the cannon of world literature good enough to learn to write and be considered a cultured person?

You'll be hard pressed to read much of anything if you can't write.

No, the question is about being considered a cultured and good writer.

you won't become a good writer by listening classical music or watching renaisance paintings.

your advice is basically knowing how to draw by watching films or knowing how to compose by watching paintings.

>watching renaisance paintings.

You won't become a cultured anything by ignoring half the things people say to you for your own benefit.

>making sure they are not actually gifs

so your advice is to become an expert over every artistic medium rather than to focus on the one we're talking about, right?

the question is about becoming a better writer.

other artistic forms of art are irrelevant if you plan on learning how to write.

>going from addressing half a post to not addressing anything in a post
You won't ever be cultured, but one day you might be a successful politician.

Is reading the cannon of world literature good enough to learn to write

you don't ask a writer about music history or music composition, you don't ask a musician about poetrhy.

No the question was about being a cultured person. If the question was supposed to be about only writing then you need a beginner's guide to composition, not try and swallow the cannon (sic).

this board is about literature.

you can be a cultured person in one field.
most people know about some very few fields they specialize in.

you seem to live in a fantasy world where people can know everything.

You seem to live in a real world in which you know nothing, and I'm not talking about Socratic ignorance.

so your advice is to know a little of a lot instead knowing a lot of something?

My advice on how to be a cultured person is to know about many aspects of culture.

you can be a cultured person on just one field of knowledge.

you know the definition of an expert, right?

Why are you talking about experts?

Nope I read it all and forgot most o it by the time I finished.

people value more a cultured person on just one field than someone who knows a little of everything.

you don't need to know about everything to be considered cultured.

Yes, it is different to the definition of cultured.

An expert in Victorian literature wouldn't be much good if he didn't also have a detailed knowledge of the rest of Victorian culture, politics, religion, etc.

if he's an expert on victorian culture.
nobody will give a fuck if some expert on literature and world history of literature knows nothing much beyond literature.

same as nobody ask an art historian to know about politics.

You need to know about more than one thing to be cultured.
It's not a question about whether others gives a fuck, it's a question about whether one's cultured or not.

Every art historian would know the political milieu in which the works are written.

To be cultured is to have a broad understanding of culture, not a narrow specialisation in a particular area. If you want that specialisation then good for you and good luck but don't call it cultured. A painting expert who uses that word incorrectly could be forgiven but not a literature expert.

I've always find a topic you lack the knowledge.
what if you don't know nothing about math?
about physics?
games?
each country history?
each major religion century?

where do you draw the line?
It's an useless task to know about everything.

Do you consider someone like beethoven not a cultured person because he wasn't a math or a scientists?

how bout gabo?
is he not a cultured person because he has not training on money investing and banking?

To get good at writing, you have to write.

No, it literally doesn't matter how much you read. There's no way around it - start writing.

It's the lowest common denominator

>confirmed for can't identify anything