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The Form of the Unfinished: English Poetics from Spenser to Pound
By (Author) Balachandra Rajan
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.009
Paperback
328
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Distinguishing between the incomplete poem and the unfinished poem, Professor Rajan sees the unfinished poem as remaining in dialogue with its own dissensions. He contributes to current critical debates by showing how the long poem resists assimilation to the forces of both unification and undecidability, finding its significance on the line of eng