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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I am surprised that it took you so long to enter this thread.  |
I didn't see it until recently.
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Yes, Shakespeare an excellent example. The writing is so bad that hundreds of years ago his work was abandoned except among a tiny few arcane academics. 
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It turns out a lot of so-called classics were not well received back when they were written.
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I can help with that Alexander Dumas & William Shakespeare, and maybe/probably (for LOTR) J.R.R. Tolkien yes.
Issac Asimov & Douglas Adams no, not yet and if ever for selected works.
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But in order to be a proper definition of classic it has to fit all of the authors mentioned in that one definition or it's just not going to work. It has to be just one definition that takes into account classic as a whole.