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Heraclitus would be my guess for a possible influence on Nietzsche's enigmatic epigram-writing style.

This describes my feelings to a T. Shelley is the most ambitious of the writers, but Stoker's more entertaining.

Yeah, TROILUS is more rewarding than some of the other "problem plays," like TIMON OF ATHENS. It's interesting that TROILUS was composed within a year or so of HAMLET, but the latter has gone down...

I've never tackled MTHOLOGIQUES, but have read a fair amount of secondary stuff on Levi-Strauss. I like the basic idea of structuralism-- or at least, I like it better than Roland Barthes' attempt to...

Before starting a thread on "literature and mythology" I checked to see if there was one. This one's old and not being used, but it does mention one of the critics who interest me, Northrop Frye,...

Yes, I read the four Eddison novels years ago, and enjoyed them. I hope to re-read them one of these days. Thanks for the recommendation.

Shakespeare is the better creator of characters in the modern sense, though to be fair Homer inherited all or most of his characters from traditional sources.

The Bard's TROILUS AND CRESSIDA is,...

Hello. I chose the username "Ouroboros Dream" because I'm heavily into Jung and that crowd. Also big on fantasy, SF, and a lot of 19th-cent literature.