The Aeneid (only The Georgics circulated in Virgil's lifetime).
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I'd argue Boswell's London Journal is greater than Life of Johnson & other works published when alive.
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One more: Billy Budd is arguably as great as anything Melville published while alive.
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And I think most of the major 17th century English poets (Donne, Marvel, Rochester) published posthumously.
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Herbert designed The Temple as bk, posth. pub. Donne, Marvell, Rochester all more complicated.
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There just wasn't same publishing culture as now, so they are probably not relevant.
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you mean in c17? Agreed.
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Yeah, it occurred to me that my 17th century examples a bit off.
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