Who do you think is the best author whose work only gained attention and praise posthumously?
Blake, it's not even close outside of Coleridge championing Songs of Innocence.
>>24795124Attention and praise from whom? Even when artists are thought of as labouring away unappreciated, usually you'll find that a few contemporaries recognized (or at least half-recognized) their worth. Just not enough to make them rich and famous.<Pic attached> is a decent candidate in the field of literature I suppose. That's partly her own fault — she never made a concerted effort to get her stuff published en masse. She gave individual poems to individual friends, and stuck a bunch in a desk drawer which were only discovered after her death. (Friends did urge her to try to publish a collection.)
>>24795124Melville
>>24795157this. it's always melville.
>>24795124Who's bottom right?
>>24795191Mikhail Bulgakov
His children are billionaires.
>>24795124Poe
>>24795124Kafka is the Van Gogho of literature. An overrated hack whose works only jumped into the mainstream because the person who inherited his state knew how to milk the sad artist angle. On top he was jew.>>24795139>>24795157>>24795161Panned by critics but their books sold well.
>>24796495Who did kafka better than kafka? I love his writing but he was clearly a career man who wrote for shits and giggles.
>>24796510He was the original twink.
>>24796495Typee and Omoo did. Moby-Dick was a financial failure, and his later novels sold even worse. He died in obscurity.
>>24795154>Dickinsondon't know why people revere this bitch so much
>>24796495They sold poorly you gigapseud
