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The End of the Mind is self-evidently not for beginners. The percipient teacher will, however, find it overflowing with profoundly new ways of talking about Hardy's poetry, not least that unintelligibility is a mark not of a difficult reading, nor of the reader's failure to read, but of the poet's genius in securing opacity and unspeakableness within the circumference of text and texture. The unintelligible, like the disruption of certitude - in invocation and denial, akin to eliding surfaces in order to see what might be gliding beneath - enables poet and reader alike to approach what Harrison calls " the outer limits of possibility."
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This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. DeSales Harrison draws a distinction between sites of unintelligibility and sights of difficulty; while much has been said about modernist difficulty, little has been said about the attention that poets give to phenomena that arrest, impede, obscure, damage or destroy the capacity for intelligible representation.
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