/lit/ - Literature

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Vsevolod Garshin was an underrated Russian short story writer, operating in the shadow of Tolstoy (he was quite young) but a very worthwhile and perhaps moving towards greatness: which you can see in stories like The Red Flower, Artists etc. He killed himself (possibly purposefully, possibly as a result of a fever) by throwing himself down a staircase - weirdly enough he is more well known for Ilya Repin's painting of him than any of his actual work.

Also in Russia you have both Pushkin and Lermontov dying in duels while still quite young.

Philip Sidney is another unfortunate death: i truly believe that had he been more savvy in his dealings at Elizabeth's court and consequently not been killed fighting in Europe his stature wold have increased immensely. He's already important (though largely ignored in modernity) for his Old Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella (as well as his extreme formalistic experimentation in his translation of the Psalms) - if he had lived longer he would have achieved the stature of a Spenser or Donne (if not that of Milton) for sure