What's interesting there is how many authors of works we consider classics now only become popular well after their deaths. Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Dickenson and

What's interesting there is how many authors of works we consider classics now only become popular well after their deaths. Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Dickenson and Melville, for instance. If their works had been lost, "we" probably wouldn't have noticed any of those absences either.