What literature tradition made you want to learn a new language?

Have you ever dabbled or gotten really into a particular literary tradition -- Russian lit, or Persian poetry etc -- that made you really want to learn that language and read in the original? As my examples suggest, that's been happening to me with Russian and Persian a lot haha. Russian literature and its social and historical contexts seem so intriguing to me, I'm really tempted to start learning it despite not having the time...
As for Persian, I always had some sense of its importance as literary/poetic language, but I've been talking about it with Persian-speaking friends lately and they're descriptions of how the language functions have been so eye-opening as to the way Persian produces imagery and descriptions even in mundane contexts.
What literary traditions have you been reading lately and do they make you want to learn a new language?