#classical literature poll

[mr-rochester-of-thornfield]

Is there a movie/TV adaptation of Jane Eyre that you feel represents you the most accurately? I'm partial to Toby Stephens from the 2006 miniseries but wanted to hear your opinion on the matter! Alternatively, is there one you think represents you the least accurately?

[yourgirlfoe]

Ya'll ever go, "fuckin' hell, I know this smell!" and it's the smell of a February evening from 2017 ?

[beatricethestrange]

I might make a part two because there's a lot more I wanted to put.

[queeringclassiclit]

Bilbo Baggins

from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien

[sjbattleangel]

(Sorry I had to shorten some quotes)

From: Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy A Tale Of Two Cities-Charles Dickens Moby Dick-Herman Melville Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen War Of The Worlds-H.G. Wells The Iliad-Homer The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fritzgerald The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri Romeo & Juliet-William Shakespeare My Immortal-Tara Gilesbie

[thefuzzhead]

Girlies, I need to know

Please spread this to increase the sample size.

[farenmaddox]

Unpopular literary opinion poll: Haters Edition

I have read a lot of books and sometimes I want to be a hater about it. These are list of classics that I've read and wished I wasn't reading, the whole time I was reading them. Come be a hater with me.*

*people who actually like the books in this poll are sincerely invited to tell someone else. I don't care. I understand the place that the books have in literary canon, can tell you their literary merits, and have even written academically on some of them. It doesn't matter. This poll is for haters only.**

**you can tell me about other works of classic literature you hate though. I'm listening.

Poll for the Lovers here

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

FIGHT!

[clever-naming-convention]

Blah Blah Blah reasoning in tags reblog for sample size

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 2

Propaganda under the cut!

Vergil Propaganda:

The vates himself, everyone. The poet so good that the Church was like "okay yeah this one magical pagan can stay"

The Fourth Eclogue is such a weird little delight. Is it about the children of Antony? Augustus? Is it a prediction of the birth of Christ? Is it somehow, as I heard one professor suggest for some reason, about Gallus? The possibilities are endless

Are you going to vote against the world-shattering masterpiece that is the Aeneid?

Side note, if you spell it "Virgil" you are my enemy

Catullus Propaganda:

When I was teaching Latin, one of my 8th grad students said of Catullus "He's the worst man who ever lived. I love him."

The only Roman writer to talk about clit envy

Fucking loved Sappho, so you know he has good taste

[official-english-major]

The real reason penelope was suspicious of Odysseus is bc athena made him taller and Penelope was like "🤨 my man was an inch shorter than me. nice try, buster"

[literatureaf]

Feel free to name any favorite not on this list, or see what I already have!

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[queeringclassiclit]

Jean Valjean

from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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