Which American writer and poet left an unfinished work called Cantos
The Cantos The Cantos The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a "canto". Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards. It is a book-length work, widely considered to be an intense and challenging read. "The Cantos" is generally considered one of the most significant works of modernist poetry in the 20th century. As in Pound's prose writing, the themes of economics, governance and culture are integral to the work's content. The
Unfinished creative work written much of the work at the time of his death, and the "Canterbury Tales" are considered to be a seminal work despite the unfinished status. English poet Edmund Spenser originally intended "The Faerie Queene" to consist of 12 books; even at its unfinished state—six books were published before Spenser's death—it is the longest epic poem in the English language. Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist, completed nearly 100 pieces for his novel sequence "La Comédie humaine", but a planned 48 more were never finished. Notes and plot outlines left behind by an author may allow a successor to complete