/lit/ - Literature

>Lost plays of Aeschylus. He is believed to have written some 90 plays, of which six plays survive. A seventh play is attributed to him. Fragments of his play Achilles were said to have been discovered in the wrappings of a mummy in the 1990s.
>Lost plays of Aristophanes. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of which survive.
>Lost works of Aristotle. It is believed that we have about one third of his original works
>Lost plays of Sophocles. Of 123 plays, seven survive, with fragments of others.
>Memoirs of Lord Byron, destroyed by his literary executors led by John Murray on 17 May 1824. The decision to destroy Byron's manuscript journals, which was opposed only by Thomas Moore, was made in order to protect his reputation. The two volumes of memoirs were dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at Murray's office.
>A large number of manuscripts and longer poems by William Blake were burnt soon after his death by Mr. Frederick Tatham.
>Parts two and three of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, burned by Gogol at the instigation of the priest Father Matthew Konstantinovskii.
>At least four complete volumes and around seven pages of text are missing from Lewis Carroll's thirteen diaries, destroyed by his family for reasons frequently debated.
>The son of the Marquis de Sade had all of de Sade's unpublished manuscripts burned after de Sade's death in 1814; this included the immense multi-volume work Les Journées de Florbelle.
>Margaret Fuller's manuscript on the history of the 1849 Roman Republic was lost in the 1850 shipwreck in which Fuller herself, her husband and her child perished. In Fuller's own estimation, as well as of others who saw it, this work, based on her first-hand experience in Rome, might have been her most important work.
>A schoolmate of Arthur Rimbaud confessed he lost a notebook of poems by the famous poet. His "La Chasse spirituelle," which Verlaine claimed was his masterpiece, is also lost forever.
>The Irish Public Records Office in Dublin was burned by the IRA in 1922 during the Irish Civil War, destroying 1,000 years of state and religious archives.
>Walter Benjamin had a completed manuscript in his suitcase when he fled France and arrest by the Nazis in the summer of 1940. He committed suicide in Portbou, Spain on September 26, 1940 and the suitcase and its contents disappeared.
>Diaries of Philip Larkin - burnt at his request after his death on 2 December 1985. Other private papers were kept, contrary to his instructions.

>>11103234
>usually meant to be spoken aloud, and not just read.
This, the change to silent reading might be said to mark the inception of modernism (Finnegan's wake as the boundary stone indicating it's end) and
>>11102142
>genuine ruse
"I'll have them [literature scholars] sifting through this indefinitely." -- or something to that effect.

>>11059927
>counter at the cashier's desk has a soft hands detector, lingering neurotoxic unguent makes ejaculating feel like lightening fast kidney stones in the absence of opposite sex's hormones