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[Anonymous No.14785934]

Post writers that struggled with mental illness. Pre-1970s preferred, no women please.

[Anonymous No.14785945]

>Malcolm Lowry. Genuinely lost his sanity and became a drunk because he had a micro-penis

[Anonymous No.14785958]

philip k dick

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[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14785978]

Geunon and Muhammad of course

[Anonymous No.14785992]

>>14785974
>>14785978
Do you have nothing better to do, butterfag? If you need to pass the time somehow you could try stepping into a noose.

[Anonymous No.14785995]

Ezra Pound was not ill ,he was enlightened

[Anonymous No.14786001]

>>14785995
There's usually not much of a difference anon

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>>14785992
Eating atm. Damn these easy access handhelds m right?
But what’s wrong with my choices? OP made it clear enough. He doesn’t want to see Virginia Woolf or Sylvia Plath, so I gave classic examples of schizophrenic control freaks

[Anonymous No.14786021]

>>14786007
Right, I should have considered that you a probably the number one authority on being mentally ill on this board

[Anonymous No.14786023]

Just picked this up at a used bookstore based off a chart thread. Anyone have any pointers?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14786075]

>>14786021
I pick up things

[Anonymous No.14786124]

Alright then, off the cuff:

Blake
William Cowper
Rimbaud
Christopher Smart
William Cowper
Jonathan Swift
William Collins
Matthew Green
Samuel Johnson
John Clare
Friedrich Hölderlin
Eduard Mörike
Hart Crane
John Berryman
Robert Lowell

This is not counting the severely depressed: Leopardi, Gray, Crabbe, Pope, etc ...


Poetry and Madness, i remember reading a good essay on the subject, I cant remember but i think it was by Peter Porter. Seek it out if you're interested.

[Anonymous No.14786325]

>>14786124
Good list anon

[Anonymous No.14786333]

>>14786023
>edited by a woman
into the trash it goes, get a proper version

[Anonymous No.14786809]

Totally schizoid