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I mean, go and look who were the most famous authors 200 years ago and you will not recognize one name. The amount of legendary writers we have lost to time and
by HidyBush 4y ago
I mean, go and look who were the most famous authors 200 years ago and you will not recognize one name. The amount of legendary writers we have lost to time and moldy paper is huge
- wolverine876 4y agoTaken literally, that seems unlikely - Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, the Bible, etc. But I wonder how many we would recognize.
- bombcar 4y agoI suspect famous means famous in their time. We know some of them just from pure output (think Charles Dickens) - but think of all the contemporaries of Cervantes we don’t know - the very people he was making fun of with Don Quixote.
- cafard 4y agoIn 1822, Byron, Coleridge, and Wordsworth were alive and writing. In Germany, Goethe was alive and still writing. In France, Chateaubriand was publishing.