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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
I'm not sure whether the change is as drastic as all that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Jack London self-publish? Christopher Paolini certainly did, as did a number of other authors whose names later became household words.
Amazon has lowered the entry barriers for self-publishers and the internet has provided far more sense of community than they've ever had before, but authors acting as entrepreneurs is most definitely not a new occurance.
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A.E. Housman is an English author who mainly published simple and wholesome poems around 1900 about youth in the English countryside and at war for the British Crown. He couldn't find a publisher for his first work "A Shropshire Lad." He then astounded his students and contemporaries at University College London and Cambridge by paying for the publishing himself. It went on to be very successful.
The Edition of Wordsworth I have has "Shropshire Lad," "More Poems," "Last Poems," "Additional Poems." Some of these were brought to light after Housman's death by his brother Laurence.
I will share a bit of Houseman, #54, ...Lad"
"With rue my heart is laden
for golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade."
I marvel at the feelings that come forth reading such.