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Who are some writers/poets who were huge deals back in their day, but are completely forgotten now for one reason or another?

>> No.17618570

>>17618562
Thomas Wolfe

>> No.17618575

Read on here on time that Schopenhauers mother was a rather acclaimed writer, and Schopie berated her for being a hoe with her stardom and that she’d only be remembered for being a cunt mother.

>> No.17618592

Joseph Addison

>> No.17618594

>>17618562
The American Winston Churchill. Bestseller in his time but obviously got overshadowed by the Brit of the same name.

>> No.17618686

Roger Smithson
Jean-Pierre Bosheau
Peter Zimmermann
Mateo Vittorioni

All great unknown authors.

>> No.17619289

>>17618562
Bump.

>> No.17619292

Ossian due to a strange attack on his poems

>> No.17619295

>>17618562
My diary desu

>> No.17619365

Hugh Walpole, John Galsworthy. Two seriously popular writers in their day (Galsworthy even won the Nobel Prize) that are basically unheard of and out-of-print.

They're not forgotten, but I think W. Somerset Maugham and Saul Bellow are becoming this. Hugely popular and acclaimed in their day, but no longer fashionable, and sliding out of the public consciousness.

>> No.17619374

>>17618562
The Thebaid

>> No.17619388

>>17619365
>Saul Bellow
He's becoming this, along with John Updike. Give it another ten or twenty years and I feel like they'll rarely be discussed anymore.

>> No.17619399

Who was the dude that wrote “it was a dark and stormy night”

>> No.17619411

I don't remember.

>> No.17619727

>>17619292
>due to a strange attack on his poems
How so? Never head of Ossian.

>> No.17619813

>>17619399
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and he was never considered a great author, he was actually considered one of the worst.

>> No.17619844

>>17618592
Every conservative 'Murican quotes him all day, every day. They don't even know who he is.

>> No.17619854

>>17619813
He was popular though iirc, just not regarded as high quality. He was often derided by literary critics in his time.

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>>17619399
>>17619813
This may be true, but he was probably one of the most influential authors of his day. Promoted a lot of weird theosophical ideas like Atlantis that are still around today. He's responsible for turning my province (BC) from a fringe mercantile outpost of the empire into a "miniature England on the Pacific ocean" (his words) and also helped to establish Freemasonry on the west coast. He also invented the idea of an underground aryan race living in caves under the antarctic, and idea which still occasionally resurfaces on /pol/.
Bless his autistic Anglo heart.

>> No.17619881

>>17618562
Disreali considering he's one of the greatest writers to ever walk to the earth.

>> No.17620079

>>17619872
>He also invented the idea of an underground aryan race living in caves under the antarctic, and idea which still occasionally resurfaces on /pol/.
lmao
this guy seems cool

>> No.17620084

>>17619881
This is a joke, right?

>> No.17620088

>>17619813
I was going to post him in this very thread as one of my favorite forgotten writers lmao

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>>17618562
Robert Penn Warren. Won *two* Pulitzers (one for the novel for 'All the Kings Men', and another for his poetry), but nobody on /lit/ except me ever posts about him. One of the great American poets of the 20th century; much better than any of the beats who everyone always references.

>> No.17620143

Who was that discount American Dickens who always wrote about poor kids becoming rich by having rich men take pity on them?

>> No.17620160

>>17620143
I suspect you're referring to Horatio Alger. I've read him but I don't think he's very good.

>> No.17620377

Sir Walter Scott

>> No.17620800

H.E. Bates.

Some writers only become popular after they die. Bates was the opposite. He was hugely popular while he was alive, considered to be one of England's most important and popular living authors, and in many ways the successor to Hardy, but when he died in the seventies, he half disappeared off the face of the earth.

I became a big fan of him after learning about him from my late uncle, and I've collected a fair few of his books. Most of my editions are from the sixties and seventies. Most of what he wrote is out of print. What he IS remembered for is The Darling Buds of May, a light comedy, and Fair Stood the Wind for France, a war story, neither of which capture what his main body of work was really about.

If anyone's interested I would heartily recommend his novel Love for Lydia. I've read it three times now and I firmly believe it's an undiscovered classic.

>> No.17620807

>>17618570
Criminally underrated. Faulkner called him the best living American writer

>> No.17620828

>>17618562
tbf even shakespeare was forgotten if it weren't for the germans interest in him