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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Robert Bridges's 1918 edition brought Hopkins's mature poetry to readers almost three decades after his death. The concentrated language and sprung rhythm offered later poets striking alternatives to familiar metres. Publication made an extensive, largely unavailable body of work part of twentieth-century literary life.
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Wang Yangming
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His account of the unity of knowing and acting continued to develop through later followers across East Asia after his death in 1529. Its influence reached Japanese thinkers and some leaders associated with the Meiji Restoration. Followers and critics repeatedly adapted the argument to new ethical and political situations.
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Dōgen
Modern editions, interpretation and translation brought his writings into philosophical discussion far beyond the Sōtō community centuries after his death in 1253. His treatment of practice as inseparable from enlightenment offered readers a distinctive account of everyday activity. That modern audience expanded a religious legacy that had already been preserved by followers.
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Walter Benjamin
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German collections in the 1950s and English-language anthologies such as Illuminations in 1968 widened access after Benjamin's death in 1940. His writing on reproducible images, modern urban experience and history became a resource across cultural studies. Editions and translations, rather than a single moment of recognition, built that reach.
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John Snow
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The later acceptance of waterborne cholera and the twentieth-century revival of his papers made Snow's investigations foundational teaching material in epidemiology. He died in 1858, already a respected anaesthetist. His comparison of water supplies deserves as much attention as the famous pump handle, whose retelling can obscure the fuller evidence.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nietzsche glimpsed growing recognition before his collapse, but the enormous twentieth-century debate around his criticism of morality came after his death in 1900. That legacy included serious philosophical engagement and damaging appropriations. The posthumous compilation The Will to Power also shows why influence must be distinguished from faithful interpretation.
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