#3: William Blake
I should probably tell you this now rather than wait for you to figure it out yourselves gradually. Brace yourselves; there will be many of these listed here—people who received only posthumous recognition. It might get repetitive, but I promise it’s all to expand your mind.
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Why does humanity seem to have such a poor ability to notice its important figures until they are gone? You could try asking English poet William Blake, but he’d probably answer with a poem or a painting. Blake was said to have been writing, painting, and singing until the day he died in poverty, unappreciated and unknown.