6 Books Gone Forever.

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Here are 6 pieces of literature lost in history. From Ernest Hemingway to Sylvia Plath, these great losses to literature will never be read.
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
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📚 Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
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📚 Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
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📚 William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
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📚 Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey
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FURTHER READING:
This video is obviously not an exhaustive list. Here are some of the best things I found if you want to read more about lost books:
This downfall of this book is that it has so much biography on the authors, but the good thing about it is it does a good job of covering a lot of lost works.
📚 Stuart Kelly - The Book of Lost Books
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📰 Mental Floss - 11 Books That Are Probably Lost Forever
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🎞️The British Museum - Ming: Yongle Dadian, The Great Canon of Yongle Era
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OTHER SOURCES:
📰 The Smithsonian - The Top 10 books lost to Time
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📰 Library Mysteries: Books that have been permanently lost
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@MarianPowell 3 месяца назад

The private libraries of the Roman Empire. For several centuries, wealthy people had libraries. You had to be wealthy because papyrus books/scrolls must be recopied frequently. As the empire crumbled, so did the libraries. One was found at Herculenium where the scrolls were preserved by the volcanic eruption. They are only now able to read them but it's a slow, very expensive process. This library contains well over 1000 scrolls which shows what got lost.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

It's so cool that we have scanners that can read them without unfurling them. Who knows what we'll find.

@yippee8570 3 месяца назад

But how incredible to finally be able to read these documents!

@joelharris4399 3 месяца назад

That's the reason families of prominent writers create foundations or estates to catalog, preserve and safeguard their loved ones' works for posterity. You can then begin imagine the devastation wrought by the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Ancient knowledge, gone forever!

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

It can work against them too. Frank Zappa's wife has hoarded his catalog since his death *against* his wishes because she's adamant about his work only being available in the proper and financially superior situations. Even his former bandmates aren't allowed to play his songs without her say-so. Jimi Hendrix's family refuses to authorize use of his music in any media that involves sex & drug use. Considering that his music was as iconic as the Dope Era/Free Love Age it was released in, this is a hard criteria to match. You know how many people got high and laid to his music? Welp, can't depict that. Gena Rowlands was married to John Cassavetes and has staunchly defended the official account of his legacy. But one of his scholars--Ray Carney--found previous edits of his work and she's not only stopped him from releasing it but tried to take it and actively destroy it as well.

@joelharris4399 3 месяца назад

@@Theomite Such examples you list refer to the jerks in history who try to take advantage of a siuation for selfish purposes. Outliers really. I take your point though👍

@ShanghaiRooster 3 месяца назад

@@Theomite In the case of Mr Carney, the allegation is that he has attempted to claim ownership of the Cassavetes material he unearthed rather than pass it to Gena Rowlands company. Similar claims have been made against him in regard to material entrusted to him by filmmaker Mark Rappaport, which Carney now insists was gifted to him. Whether it's true or not, it doesn't lessen his prestige as a film critic, but he shouldn't be put on a pedestal if the accusations are true.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

@@ShanghaiRooster It's not him I'm worried about, it's Rowlands. Owner or not, Carney isn't likely to destroy the copies of ur-SHADOWS or FACES because of its historical value. Rowlands might be the kind of person who would do that to preserve a legacy.

@ShanghaiRooster 3 месяца назад

@@Theomite Gena would have a hard job destroying the first cut of Faces, which is held by the Library of Congress. Both the Criterion release of the film, and the BFI version (which I have but haven't yet watched) contain 'an alternate' opening sequence, 18 minutes on Criterion, 21 minutes on BFI - the latter also has a commentary on that material with Peter Bogdanovich and Al Ruban discussing the earlier version, which can hardly be said to be an attempt to 'suppress' the film. The first version of Shadows did get a couple of screenings in 1958, but was not well received, not least by Cassavetes himself, which is why they reshot around two thirds of the movie. Is it wrong to respect the wishes of the artist as to how their work is presented? Demanding the release of material rejected by the filmmaker (and why; to boost the ego of the 're-discoverer', surely not) is rather like demanding a musician release all the demos made in the process moving towards the final album (some of this stuff - by quite a few artists - has now been released of course, but it's as much for copyright reasons as anything in that if it wasn't officially released, and copyright extended, anybody could have legally done so in a few years).

@Astyanaz 3 месяца назад

From the time she was a child until the time she died, Emily Brontë worked on an epic fantasy. After she died, Charlotte Brontë destroyed it.

@MegaGraceiscool Месяц назад

Evil

@jamescrouch1693 3 месяца назад

The Chinese loss seems greatest. Much of the ancients has been lost. Very sad. Deeply sad.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

Yeah that's an Alexandria-level erasure event and catastrophic. However, there are some surviving volumes, which prevents it from being a total loss.

@hughcaldwell1034 3 месяца назад

@@Theomite True it wasn't "total", but it still seems like it should beat out two Shakespeare plays.

@jamescrouch1693 3 месяца назад

I had never heard of the Chinese compilation. Of course, it's great to know, so thanks for telling so many of us.

@dj1NM3 3 месяца назад

@@hughcaldwell1034 ...and a single comedy by homer.

@digitalnomad9985 2 месяца назад

@@hughcaldwell1034That's the thing, it's big enough we don't KNOW the magnitude (in terms of quality) of the loss.

@emperorpalpatine2531 3 месяца назад

Most of the Anglo-Saxon work pre-1066 after it was burned by the Vikings at Lindisfarne. Also the few missing lines of Beowulf when he’s fighting the dragon

@SonofSethoitae 3 месяца назад

...what? Lindisfarne wasn't the main repository of Anglo-Saxon writing, and the raid on Lindisfarne was a hundred years before the golden age of Anglo-Saxon writing under Alfred the Great. And three hundred years before the Norman invasion. Anglo-Saxon works dissappeared because of the Normans, not the Vikings. And not because they were all burned in a single event, because English was replaced by French as the language of the court.

@MicahMicahel 3 месяца назад

weirdly the 'ottoman empire ' people burned down most libraries but spared one that had greek algebra in it... so we credit them with INVENTING algebra.. when t hey simply chose not to destroy it! They get full credit because they destroyed everything else... but algebra. So now everyone will tell you yhat they invented it. Imagine if they didn't burn all the other ancient libraries.. would we credit every greek work with the religion of peace?

@SonofSethoitae 3 месяца назад

@@MicahMicahel Nobody credits the Ottomans with inventing algebra. The main Muslim contributors to modern Algebra were Al-Khawarizmi, a Persian during the Abassid Caliphate, and Omar Kayyam, another Persian from the Seljuk Empire. Both of whom predate the Ottomans by several hundred years.

@fabiopaolobarbieri2286 3 месяца назад

No, much of the Anglo-Saxon - and Welsh - and Scottish - and Irish - and medieval English - literary heritage was destroyed by Henry VIII and the gaggle of thieves and looters who destroyed monasteries and burned all their contents. Just as their "reformation" colleagues did on the Continent.

@MicahMicahel 2 месяца назад

@@SonofSethoitae they got it from the Greeks! They are taking credit for it just because they didn't burn that Greek library down!

@badwolftina8716 3 месяца назад

Call me shallow if you will, but I still wonder about the lost episodes of classic Doctor Who, that the BBC recorded over because they reused the tapes. I know it's not great literature, but as a Doctor Who nerd, it's still painful.

@bite-sizedshorts9635 3 месяца назад

Johnny Carson's early shows were wiped for other shows to be taped.

@Bethelaine1 3 месяца назад

It’s not shallow, those tapes were part of a long running popular series. People all over the world are still watching it I think that counts for something.

@ShanghaiRooster 3 месяца назад

Some of those missing episodes at least still exist, and are in the hands of private collectors, or have turned up in the vaults of TV stations abroad. Obviously the chances of finding more do diminish with the passing years, but we have to live in hope. Last year two missing Hartnell episodes were found to exist - one is said to feature the Daleks, which means it must be from the mostly lost Daleks' Masterplan, but the collector is reluctant to return them to the BBC, apparently out of fear he could be prosecuted for theft of BBC material (even though they themselves had discarded it). Around the time of the 50th anniversary a large number of missing Troughton episodes were recovered, and amongst them would have been all the missing episodes of The Web Of Fear (episodes 2-6) which were found in Nigeria. Sadly, episode 3 disappeared in transit, and is suspected to have been sold to a greedy collector by an employee. This is the episode featuring the very first appearance of the then Lieutenant-Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, making its appeal obvious for the obnoxious person who decided they valued exclusivity over it above it being returned to the BBC.

@ShanghaiRooster 3 месяца назад

@@Bethelaine1 It does, and their loss says much about the nature of the BBC then (and to a different extent, even today). As my brother never tires of mentioning when the subject comes up, the BBC has a complete run of 'trooping the colour' dating back to when the ceremony was first broadcast. That it was decided by the suits was of cultural significance, whereas Doctor Who was not.

@lucakat9262 2 месяца назад

@@bite-sizedshorts9635yes, I recently saw a video of Carson and Groucho Marx came on unexpectedly and it was funny. It said it was from 1965 but some people in the comments thought that it was taped later. Anyway, it was rare and whoever uploaded it found it in perfect color, very sharp. It was a very rare find indeed. I wish they could find more episodes of Carson out there as well.😊

@jeffreymeyer1191 3 месяца назад

Great video! Reminds me of how we’ve lost most silent movies.

@EyeLean5280 3 месяца назад

The poetry of Sappho? I thought for certain it would be included here. On the other hand, I wasn't aware of Homer's lost comedic poem, thanks for letting us know!

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

We have fragments of Sappho's works at least. Homer's 3rd book doesn't even have that. It;s not a competition, but Sappho wasn't entirely destroyed.

@martineldritch 3 месяца назад

Agree about the loss of Sappho's work. Plato called her the 10th muse, her poetry was that good.

@regishel 3 месяца назад

5. Sylvia Plath's lost book. 3. Losing the Yongle Encyclopedia. 2. All of the the history lost in the 1666 Great Fire of London. 1. The Destruction of The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

What about Aristotle's 2nd book of _Poetics_ analyzing Comedy? or any of Sappho's completed poems? or Euripedes' other 62 plays? or Frank Norris' 3rd volume in the Epic of the Wheat trilogy?

@bearcb 3 месяца назад

Aristotle's book on comedy at least was the pivot of the plot in The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

@ellynneg.6926 3 месяца назад

Nearly all the Greek plays, the works of Sappho, anything in Etruscan, the early Indian civilization that left plenty of surviving writing that no one can read, and the notebook of Cordwainer Smith whose loss made him give up on writing his science fiction stories. Also, the lost/unwritten parts of Canterbury Tales and the lost/unwritten parts of Faerie Queene. SInce Shakespeare's plays were mentioned, how about the scripts that were lost when the Globe burned? Several versions of the plays we know are just the best they could remember them. Some, we only have as bad quartos.

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Yeah, pretty much all ancient literature, and most things before the printing press.

@willie0947 3 месяца назад

The library at Alexandria

@azraelvrykolakas157 3 месяца назад

Alexandria much like babalon and Jericho actually fell apart more slowly than more dramatic accounts may claim. Like over centuries. And many of the documents in the library of Alexandria likely didn't meet their end there. Carthage did experience that level of devastation when the romans sacked them for like the second or third time. The romans took much of their art amd literature but none of it survives to this day.

@digitalnomad9985 2 месяца назад

They're starting to censor the Internet Archive.

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Definitely a huge loss, by some estimates 40,000 scrolls were lost. I found it hard to figure out what exactly was lost though, there’s very little known about specific works that were in it.

@lsedge7280 2 месяца назад

@@DrawntoBooks Alexandria declined pretty slowly, not dramatically as people often like to imagine, and a lot of texts from Antiquity actually got translated and adopted by the Arabic world while they were lost in Europe for a time, later being translated back into European languages in the renaissance and post-renaissance periods, so it's quite likely that only a far smaller portions of the texts held at Alexandria are lost.

@jeffreymeyer1191 3 месяца назад

The Lost Second Book of Aristotle’s Poetics on Comedy. Aztec books burned by Spanish conquistadors and priests during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.

@llywrch7116 3 месяца назад

And books written in Mayan. I believe only three manuscripts (or is it three & a partial manuscript?) have survived of the entire corpus

@user-vd7nf2vj5j 3 месяца назад

Yucatan was Maya territory

@jsalnut 3 месяца назад

Also the loss of library of Alexandria is a travesty

@NicholasMarshall 3 месяца назад

The library of Alexander housed mostly tax documents.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

@@NicholasMarshall So whoever burned it was pulling a Tyler Durden?

@cjpreach 3 месяца назад

I assumed that Alexandria's library was the single greatest literary loss in world history. But that China encyclopedia sounds like the Far East's equivalent to Alexandria.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

@@cjpreach The House of Wisdom being destroyed by the Mongols is the Middle-Eastern equivalent.

@blahblahblah6 3 месяца назад

All tragic. We have, undoubtedly, regained some of the knowledge lost. But, some is gone forever.

@KellySedinger 3 месяца назад

[looks at the shelves over your shoulder] Oooooh, a Gustave Dore collection! I love his work! Fascinating video...I think back to Carl Sagan talking in COSMOS about the Library at Alexandria and the degree to which its destruction set the world back hundreds of years.

@VenusinaMars 3 месяца назад

But the Ernest Hemingway novel isn't a complete loss, because someone could unknowingly be hoarding the suitcase somewhere. Granted they weren't quick to destroy the work.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

The problem is that person might have thrown the work away before realizing what it was. Years later, they find out it was his briefcase they stole and now they can't find it, let alone turn it in for the "reward."

@Astyanaz 3 месяца назад

@@Theomite At the time it was stolen, it was of no importance because he was an unknown writer. There is also the possibility that it wasn't very good.

@zmani4379 3 месяца назад

Nice video - that loss of Cardenio really stings; IMO it's one of the strongest episodes in the Cervantes novel - other grievous losses include Aristotle's treatise on comedy; Gogol's 3rd volume of Dead Souls; the whole corpus of Classical Greek drama, barring the 37-odd works that survived; 2000 yrs of Harappan civilization, till they find Rosetta Stone to decipher it; most of 1000-year corpus of the Persian Empire before Islam, which set the template for monotheism - also 2000 yrs of Akkadian culture preceding it, w Babylon

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

I'll bet you anything that pre-Islamic Iranian Zorastrian drama was a trip and a hoot to read.

@User_Un_Friendly 3 месяца назад

James H Schmidt wrote the SEQUEL to his masterpiece, Witches of Karres. Publisher stopped publishing science fiction, manuscript lost during a move. Way underrated author, possibly my favorite from the golden age of Science Fiction. 😭😭😭

@ObservingLibertarian 3 месяца назад

We have absolutely *none* of Aristotle's completed works. What we have are recitations, incomplete drafts and transcribed lectures. All of his completed works were destroyed or looted. With how pivotal Aristotle's work has been to absolutely all scientific endeavors: we can't possibly begin to comprehend what wide spread circulation of his *completed works* could have done for or to the world. Especially if his writings had not been kept out of circulation for hundreds of years before being rediscovered in fragmented form. We don't even know the accuracy of _what is available_ because we don't know how well it was translated to the foreign tongue it was printed in as a result of being taken as loot. The world may well have lost close to a millennium of technological advancement as a result of having lost all of Aristotle's completed works, and the fragments having been sequestered in foreign lands among foreign hands for centuries.

@marshall1oo627 3 месяца назад

The Hemingway one is actually weirder than that. After Hadley lost his writing, he talked about how bad it hurt, but his actions didn’t match. His friends reported that he didn’t display any behaviors that showered he cared all that much. A lot of people came to him with assurance that they could help find the writing, but he didn’t take them up even though it wouldn’t have expensive for him. Ezra Pound even convinced Hemingway that losing the writing would be good for his (Hem’s) career. He mythologized himself as a destitute struggling writer in his Paris days. He pretended to be poor even though Hadley had a big trust fund. There’s a lot of scholarship on this history of his lost work, but the best synthesis of it is in Michael Reynolds “The Paris Years”

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

Thanks for this.

@damdamfino 3 месяца назад

I’ve lost single chapters to a computer crash that made me abandon the whole book entirely. I can’t imagine losing the sole finished draft. 😢 the agony

@bite-sizedshorts9635 3 месяца назад

I've been using PCs since 1989 and haven't lost a single thing ever. I make backups. I still have the 1970 handwritten introduction to my first book which I finally completed in 1989.

@damdamfino 3 месяца назад

@@bite-sizedshorts9635 good for…you?

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Agree, it’s the worst! I’m glad Google docs at least auto saves now. Adobe programs still fail me often 😩

@HLPiepgrass 3 месяца назад

Aztec codices…lots of knowledge lost.

@Zebred2001 3 месяца назад

I would nominate Bishop da Landa's burning of Mesoamerican books. There are only about 20 surviving books today.

@MattCellaneous 2 месяца назад

The emperor Claudius is said to have written a 10 volume work on the history of the Etruscans that is known but lost and it breaks my heart every time I think about it.

@Work-cc5fw 3 месяца назад

I believe Anton chekov’s “The Bet” was a three part story and the third part was lost. Leaving us with what we have today which is still a masterclass

@johnmcclure40 3 месяца назад

Jacques Futrelle, one of the most influential mystery writers of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, had several unpublished stories with him when he died on the Titanic.

@jacqueschouette7474 3 месяца назад

1) The library at Alexandria, 2) the Mayan codices and 3) the Aztec codices.

@Cabochon1360 2 месяца назад

My first attempt at a novel was in 1976. One copy, on a typewriter (1938 Royal KHM); no carbon, and I didn't have the money for a photocopy. (Yes, that used to cost.) Got to 85,000 words, and then my asshole father burned it. Sure, I'm no Hemingway; it was a piece of crap; but that hurt. Derailed my writing efforts for years.

@denisadellinger4543 3 месяца назад

I think the unfinished works of Jane Austen and the simple fact she died at 40 never to write again was my bad. 8 out of 10.

@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 3 месяца назад

Lost Greek works bring a tear to my eye.

@apollonia6656 3 месяца назад

Agree 100%

@MicahMicahel 3 месяца назад

the ottomans burned most of it but spared algebra.. so now we give them full credit for inventing it! Imagine of the religion of peace didn't burn down all the other stuff! We'd give them full credit for all those other greek works?

@champagne.future5248 3 месяца назад

Little Women does a good job of capturing the grief of losing a book with the incident in which Jo’s sister burns her manuscript. In the early days of computers it was a common experience to accidentally delete a file that contained hours of work and not be able to retrieve it. I remember this happening to my Dad more than once. It’s the type of tragedy that can drive a man to drink or philosophy

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

We really take the auto-save function for granted these days!

@CarolR-ub1fz 3 месяца назад

Thank you. Good video.

@joncarroll2040 3 месяца назад

The Yongle Encyclopedia is a good example of why you should make more than one copy of a major work. Also how much of a loss it really was depends on how much there was in the destroyed portions that did not exist in some other form, since it was an compilation not an original work. Are there, for example, any great works of Chinese literature or philosophy that we know were included that we do not currently have other copies of?

@digitig 3 месяца назад

They did make more than one copy. There were two copies: a bound copy and a manuscript copy. Both were lost.

@sturgeonslawyer 3 месяца назад

The burning of the Library of Alexandria. The loss of the second part of Aristotle's "Poetics."

@gibsonraymonda 3 месяца назад

A lot of people will likely say Aristotle’s On Comedy, but deep down I wish Heraclitus’s philosophy book and Sappho’s poetry survived in something other than fragments.

@diedunkleakademie 3 месяца назад

Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides: each of them wrote about 100 plays. Only 10 percent survived.

@thomasdevine867 3 месяца назад

Charlemagne wrote a book. He collected the dramatic poems of the pagan Franks. This would have been a priceless resource on pre Christian European culture. But his grandson destroyed the book in order to please his priests.

@rogerbrown9833 2 месяца назад

Shakespeare's "Cardenio" is not 100% lost. A composer named Robert Johnson wrote music for the early performances of many of Shakespeare's plays and his printed works included the texts for the songs from "Cardenio." Johnson was not a great composer and nobody paid much attention to his work, so it was only recently that the "Cardenio" lyrics were rediscovered.

@billfreeman5914 3 месяца назад

John Kennedy Toole wrote 1 great novel (A Confederacy of Dunces) but committed suicide when he couldn’t get it published. Who knows what else he might have written.💔

@MinionofNobody 3 месяца назад

It would be nice to have the first book of Hemingway. This is especially true for scholars. On the other hand, the first books of great writers are often disappointing. Try reading the mature novels of important writers like Jack Kerouac and Robert Heinlein and then read their first novels. They just aren’t up to the standards of later works. In Heinlein’s case, it is easy to understand why his first novel was published after he died.

@juicedgoose 3 месяца назад

I'd put Gogol burning the second volume of Lost Souls on this list

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

Was he the one who used it for rolling papers for tobacco during the war because he thought he wouldn't make it out?

@manticore5733 3 месяца назад

After Sir Terry Pratchett died his will required all his unfinished books and notes to be destroyed... apparently he had several in various states of completion but they're all lost.

@richardpankey6483 3 месяца назад

The loss of virtually the whole corpus of Punic literature. What scraps remain and what little we have translated into other languages suggest that those people of the classical era who claimed that Punic literature was equal to that of Latin and Greek were not wrong.

@coyoteartist 3 месяца назад

Always loved that I had to write 10 pages on a man who might not have existed as a punishment for for the actions of 6 other people in 6th grade. On the other hand, I got a 98, two points off for Mother having misspelled poem because she typed it for me. I was still pissed I had to do it, but it was interesting at least.

@ericksbookshelf 2 месяца назад

The burning of Alexander's Library was mankind's most devastating loss of, not just literature, but knowledge.

@joeschembrie9450 2 месяца назад

Stephen King and Jules Verne both became so discouraged that they threw away manuscripts that were to become their breakout novels. However, their wives rescued the manuscripts from oblivion. The lesson here is that your spouse can either break you or make you. So choose wisely.

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

haha, I have a file of spouses who either burned or saved manuscripts. Stevenson's wife burned the first draft of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because she thought it was "utter nonsense." So I think I have to agree with you here!

@joeschembrie9450 2 месяца назад

@@DrawntoBooks That would be an interesting video, if I may suggest.

@kenknight5983 Месяц назад

I recommend everyone read 'Cory's Ancient Fragments'. It's a compilation of ancient authors quoting other authors, giving us small chunks of ancient books that are otherwise lost. You'll also get many snippets of lost ancient authors if you read Strabo's Geography

@ryanthegreat805 3 месяца назад

Love these videos

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@danielbrown3125 3 месяца назад

When Sir Richard Burton died, his widow burned all of his unpublished work.

@oliverbrownlow5615 3 месяца назад

Stephen Crane is said to have started writing a novel about male prostitutes, called *Flowers in Asphalt,* intended as a companion piece to his already-published *Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,* but friends persuaded him that no one would be interested in reading about such a sordid topic, and he is believed to have destroyed the unfinished manuscript.

@jeroid Месяц назад

Don't forget the Mayan codices and images destroyed by Catholic priests, including the mass book burning by Deigo De Landa in July 1562. The Aztecs also destroyed a lot of Mayan written history. Prefer to have a few of those survive over the lost Hemingway.

@allafradkin 2 месяца назад

There is another story of a history lost forever. In the times of the Roman Empire there where a Germanic poeple called Goths, their history was written by a scholar named Cassiodorus, in a collection of many volumes called Gothic History , it did not survive and all We have is a very concise abridged version written by a one Jordanes . And it doesn’t really tell much not in the right chronology nor gives the best information. One thing this work of Jordanes did manage to do is to make poeple forget about these Germanic poeple and their history.. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@N1RKW 2 месяца назад

Perhaps the loss of the entire library of Alexandria might also score a 9 or a 10 here. (Apologies if this has already been mentioned.)

@gy2gy246 3 месяца назад

I like your humor and your knowledge of literature.

@nicoleackerman205 3 месяца назад

I could see why they divorced every time and argument occurred that probably got brought up.

@francisgrizzlysmit4715 3 месяца назад

what about the burning down of the library of Alexandria

@zaxxon4 3 месяца назад

I'd argue that when an authors works are so nearly completely preserved as the works of Shakespeare, that anything lost may have been lost for a reason. There are plenty of cases where artists destroy their own work when they think that a piece is not good enough.

@ifnkovhg 3 месяца назад

It would be nice if more of Aeschylus' trilogies survived whole -- his Oedipus trilogy, for example. I wish we could see how someone other than Sophocles tackled that myth. Euripides wrote an Oedipus play, as well. Throw that into the mix.

@randallbutler6795 3 месяца назад

Great video! Let's not forget Nalanda Mahavira . . .

@Serai3 3 месяца назад

One word: SAPPHO.

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Yes, Sappho for sure! I really debated that one, but I decided to just focus on single works in this video, once we start talking about losing entire bodies of work, most of ancient literature should/would be included.

@MagereHein 3 месяца назад

Dutch medieval satirical poem _Van den vos Reynaerde_ was, according to the first line, written by Willem die Madoc maecte (Willem who made _Madoc_ ). We know nothing of Willem and no copy of _Madoc_ is known to exist.

@fabiopaolobarbieri2286 3 месяца назад

It is not clear that the Margites was any good. What is left does not inspire much confidence as far as I am concerned. But you do not seem aware that Homer was also ascribed a third epic, the Thebaid, written before the Odyssey and Iliad, and regarded by ancient authors who had read it as second only to them. We only have one line of that.

@dragonshadow1902 3 месяца назад

We can get the books all back just by locking 12 monkeys in a room with 12 typewriters for a year.

@gy2gy246 3 месяца назад

:-D

@renatoe9648 3 месяца назад

The illiad and odisey where part of a series of books covering the whole war many of wich have been lost

@annaclarafenyo8185 3 месяца назад

"Love's Labour Won" is just one of the comedies under a working title.

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Yes, they originally thought it was an alternate title for Taming of the Shrew! But the bookkeepers list that has it on it also has Taming of the Shrew, so now they think it’s possible it was a unique work after all.

@timothygrier5486 3 месяца назад

Thanks for an interesting video. Homer's work is from the 8th century BC not the 7th.

@MilesBellas 3 месяца назад

Gondal by Emily Brontë ?

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

I couldn’t figure out if that novel actually existed or not! There’s so much speculation as to if she wrote it or just talked about writing it.

@williamharris8367 3 месяца назад

So, when the Yongle Encyclopedia was created, were all other written sources destroyed, leaving the two copies the only surviving record of the information contained therein? That is the only way that its loss/destruction could have resulted in the complete loss of recorded information. Hyperbole in the extreme! ☹️

@BigSeppiWen 3 месяца назад

The burning of the library at Alexandria comes to mind. And whatever works the Albegensians had created before they were exterminated by the catholic church.

@asmodeuszdewa7194 Месяц назад

Were can I buy them?

@mr.zafner8295 3 месяца назад

Honestly I kind of feel like your rating of the Chinese encyclopedia at 8 out of 10 versus a single work by Homer is a little ethnocentric. Although as I'm writing this it occurs to me that maybe it's because the encyclopedia was only mostly lost, not entirely. But that's just my opinion

@osphranterrufus 3 месяца назад

She kinda looks Chinese though. Is she Greek?

@craigcopland6941 3 месяца назад

The library of Alexandria.

@eldersprig 3 месяца назад

time travelers must have stolen the Hemingway papers.

@klausolekristiansen2960 Месяц назад

How much of that Chinese encyclopedia was truly lost? It contained copies of many works, but do other copies still exist?

@crazedvole 3 месяца назад

When I saw that these books were gone forever, I was wondering if the last copies of these were in Florida. 😏😏😏😏

@tressonkaru7410 Месяц назад

The problem with this idea, these works aren't "lost". You have links to them in your description. You know what is lost? The last silent film that lon chaney did. London after midnight was lost to a fire. There's no existing copy to this day. There could be a reenactment if anyone wants to recreate what could've been. But, the original is gone forever.

@DrawntoBooks Месяц назад

I have a feeling you didn’t watch the video…

@Astyanaz 3 месяца назад

Also, Gogol's sequel to Dead Souls.

@Astyanaz 3 месяца назад

Why is it that my computer keeps changing Gogol to Google. Haven't they heard of the writer Gogol.

@osphranterrufus 3 месяца назад

I lost my diary. 11/10.

@ryanand154 3 месяца назад

The worst loss to literature is The Ziggurat’s Pedal.

@pouetpouetdaddy5 3 месяца назад

talking about lost book...they succeed by technology to 'read" what was written on a papyrus roll who was dig from Herculanuum, town who disappear in the Vesuve volcano explosion of 79 BC ( Pompeii)...It was too fragile before to roll out. They find the papyrus was about Epicurism greek philosophy. They only found two letters explaining this philosophy to this day. Imagine, we could have more information about what really Epicurism was about. Amazing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p5qd56stw7s.htmlsi=pcWyYOCNrEk2lSrw Sorry...in french

@reaganwiles_art 3 месяца назад

Do you draw? Are you a draughtswoman? Is that the implication of your channel name?

@gy2gy246 3 месяца назад

"drawn" as in "attracted to."

@DrawntoBooks 2 месяца назад

Actually yes, I’m hoping to integrate art in some way on this channel! I went to school for design, and used to draw a lot, but I don’t draw traditionally as much now. If I don’t figure out how to integrate it, at least “drawn” has a double meaning, so it still works 😂

@fredricclack7137 2 месяца назад

👂 of "Won", 🚫 2nd!

@deirdre108 3 месяца назад

American author Dawn Powell's novels were out of print until Gore Vidal wrote a wonderful essay about her work that was published in the New York Review of Books. The good news is that the essay kindled (rekindled?) interest in Powell and her novels were reprinted. I'm happy to own the two volume hardcover set of her novels published by American Library. I'm particularly sad regarding the loss of so much of the great ancient literature. However I won't shed a tear over lost Hemingway--his novels are so overrated although his short stories can be rather interesting.

@thomasceneri867 3 месяца назад

Why speculate on what’s gone when you can celebrate what’s here?

@milfredcummings717 3 месяца назад

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@ajmvoiceover 3 месяца назад

How would you like to help a small author's work get read more?

@bdwon 3 месяца назад

Why the fuss? Why not go about creating your own great work of literature? I bet that you can.

@eldersprig 3 месяца назад

pretty sure all the UFOology and bigfoot books in the Library of Alexandria are not the stuff you are talking about.

@osphranterrufus 3 месяца назад

Nalanda Library in ancient India, destroyed by jihad terrorists.

@v1e1r1g1e1 3 месяца назад

You know how C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien survived the battles of WWI....? Hundreds of other writers never did. Both sides. Think about that.

@PEGGLORE 3 месяца назад

Library of Alexandria, putting human race back many years. Been commented on by 100 different people. I bring nothing new here.

@williamhealey1223 3 месяца назад

The burning of Alexandria didn't make this list? 👎

@jbriaz 3 месяца назад

Great video. But I do quibble with the general sentiment (not yours, the general sentiment) that Shakespeare is the greatest English writer ever. Most important? Sure. Seminal? Definitely. Most influential? For sure. Best? Hard pass. So many great English writers have come since him that took what he did and improved upon it or went in different directions.

@champagne.future5248 3 месяца назад

It’s hard to compare him to later writers because the English language was in such a fluid state and he invented so many words himself. It’s not the kind of creativity expressed by authors writing at a time when English was more codified and cemented

@chrisoneill3999 3 месяца назад

Shakespeare, the Beatles, Turner and Gaudier-Brzeska are never going to be popular with everybody. They are challenging.

@Theomite 3 месяца назад

I think "Greatest" isn't a measure of quality as much as importance. Cervantes might not be the best Spanish writer but he is most likely the "Greatest" for that reason.

@chrisoneill3999 3 месяца назад

But if the Library of Alexandria had survived, people wouldn't have had so much time to read the Bible.

@NinjaLeekspin 3 месяца назад

Funny thing is, we can't prove that William Shakespeare ever existed, either.

@fredricclack7137 2 месяца назад

🥱Hummingway! 😴

@wlewisiii 3 месяца назад

He never wrote it. That BS was to cover his fear of writing.

@ryanand154 3 месяца назад

Don’t care, Shakespeare has been replaced by other stupid shit.

@oliverbrownlow5615 3 месяца назад

Shakespeare's lost plays probably don't contain anything that could compete with the eloquence of this statement.

@douglasskinner 3 месяца назад

This is quasi history. How many works have been placed in the round file by authors themselves never to be seen again? How many would be great authors were killed on the battlefield or in accidents or just diverted to a different life path? We'll never know but is a large number. We like in a fallen world and this is one of its aspects. Better to study real literature.