Which of the great Western writers would you say was the furthest from reaching his full potential, either because of untimely death, censorship, misguided projects, laziness, or something else?
>>25168934Beethovan
Gray
>>25168934Emily Bronte
>>25168938Scriabin and Shelley as well due to untimely death
>>25168934John Keats croaking at 25 was a big loss.
>>25168938Mozart too, I feel he would have been credited with creating more modernist sounding pieces than Beethoven. A couple of his works already imply that.
D-David.. uhh, David Foster W-Wallace…
Mervyn Peake
>>25168934Not Western, but Dostoevsky died before starting his Karamazov sequel, where Alyosha was supposed to go full tzar killer.
>>25169041Maybe he would have written something good then.
>>25169049>I’ve been reading him all my life. That man could do everything. Complicated characters, madness …He’s also very funny, Very very funny, yes. And passionate! The epitome of passion that someone like Nabokov could never understand; he knows nothing about passion.
>>25169041>Not Western"The West" as far as the canon is concerned includes Russia
>>25169054Gaddis was a bit of a retard thoughbeit
Ada Lovelace
Me
>>25169211>thoughbeitOpinion discarded (as if it was ever worth anything in the first place), just lead with that next time.
>>25169318Go and read your hacks, brother
>>25168934Edgar Allen Poe. If he had not died at forty he’d of been much more esteemed than he currently is. Poe didn’t even complete a book length novel, yet was celebrated for his tales, short stories, and poems.
>>25168990single greatest loss to english-language literature. career was barely 6 years long. his entire body of work can fit in a pocket edition. and that was enough to put him in the top 5 poets of all time. hurts to think about too long, I imagine this is what mathematicians feel about Ramanujan
>>25169318newfag
>>25169114Sorry ivan, you're not welcome in our club. Try not to invade countries, next time
>>25168934Rimbaud and is peak comedy that his inspiration came from from fucking Verlaine.
>>25168934>either because of untimely death, censorship, misguided projectsFlaubert definitely
>>25169470>Poe, Edgar Allan. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, but no longer. One would like to have filmed his wedding.
