People have already listed many authors I wouldn't mind having back, like: Dickens, Poe, Hemingway and others. I'll pick a couple author's that are toss-ups for me, that haven't been listed. I would like Homer, maybe he could come up with some new epic poems; also I'd like to see Richard Laymon, he's one of horrors great authors who died recently and at a relatively young age.
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If you could bring any author / poet back from the dead to write again...
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Lewis Carrol. I have always been obsessive about Alice in Wonderland and I'd be in heaven if he'd continued putting out Wonderland adventures in the same manner that Baum wrote his Wizard of Oz books. 
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William W. Johnstone (yes he is dead, but as with V.C. Andrews someone "took over the legacy" which means their publishers wanted to cash in on name recognition), because when he was in his prime he wrote some fairly decent and gory horror stories that appealed to my need for blood and guts as a teenager. Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, because I am sure they would be truly terrified by the internet age of the 21st Century. And finally Stephen King. What you say? Stepehn King is alive? I mean the real Stephen King who wrote stuff like It, The Dark Half and The Stand, and not the pretentious little, self-serving, wussy who replaced him after his car accident who made himself a character in the final books of The Dark Tower and wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.-MV
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David Gemmell, I would love to see more of his work which just kept getting better and better until he died in 2006.
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Mark Twain. I'd like to see what he'd write about these days. The things he wrote late in life were so much different than his early stuff, and his opinions so far outside the general thinking of his time that I'd imagine he'd be writing a lot more angry now, and I imagine his humor would be more edgy and devastating. Also Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams.
"Happiness is doing it rotten your own way."Isaac Asimov (1994)
A.A Milne.......He actually wrote some pretty kick ass detective stories in his time although once Winnie the Pooh got published he had a hard time re-directing his press and stopped writing them! Bastard!
Either that or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, maybe not to write but more so I can ask him about what he REALLY meant in 'The Final problem' (SPOILER ALERT) What the hell were you thinking when they had that struggle over the falls....seriously?! Is the whole split personality thing truly without founding?! Damn you Doyle, so many questions I have for you!!
As for your quest to write 'elevated' lit....HA. Long live pulpy detective novels! *swishes her cape*
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Either that or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, maybe not to write but more so I can ask him about what he REALLY meant in 'The Final problem' (SPOILER ALERT) What the hell were you thinking when they had that struggle over the falls....seriously?! Is the whole split personality thing truly without founding?! Damn you Doyle, so many questions I have for you!!
As for your quest to write 'elevated' lit....HA. Long live pulpy detective novels! *swishes her cape*
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William Shakespeare
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Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov
he is not even a poet!!!!
Anna Akhmatova. Her poem "I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead" is chilling, to me. It speaks of lost love and talks to my heart in ways poetry rarely does.
T.S. Eliot. His poem "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" really gets to me. It is in general about a cat who is both a part of a world that is effected by the things he does, and disassociates himself equally with the world by negating any responsibility for what he does and is never anywhere long enough to be seen. In some ways, I can relate to that cat.
Robert Frost. His poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" seems to be about the threat of a looming (winter induced) depression upon a man who has someone he wants to keep happy, but "the woods are lovely, dark and deep".
Again, I can relate to at least my interpretations of the aforementioned works.
That's all I have for now. I haven't explored them in depth but will be doing so very soon
T.S. Eliot. His poem "Macavity: The Mystery Cat" really gets to me. It is in general about a cat who is both a part of a world that is effected by the things he does, and disassociates himself equally with the world by negating any responsibility for what he does and is never anywhere long enough to be seen. In some ways, I can relate to that cat.
Robert Frost. His poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" seems to be about the threat of a looming (winter induced) depression upon a man who has someone he wants to keep happy, but "the woods are lovely, dark and deep".
Again, I can relate to at least my interpretations of the aforementioned works.
That's all I have for now. I haven't explored them in depth but will be doing so very soon
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Marquis de Sade ... truly one of the most brilliant minds of his day
"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." -Marilyn Monroe
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Plato and Marcus Aurelius
Love to hear what they would say about today's world.
There's a TON of great choices here!
Love to hear what they would say about today's world.
There's a TON of great choices here!
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Terry Pratchett. Best books I've ever read.
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Jackie Collins for sure.
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Shirley Jackson, James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon), and Rex Stout. 
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