Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

There, in 1912, he began the poem cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain unfinished for a decade because of a long-lasting creativity crisis.

This becomes the subject of his unfinished poem, De Reditu Suo.

The poem was unfinished at Virgil's death in 19 BC.

However, these arguments may be anachronistic — half-finished lines might equally, to Roman readers, have been a clear indication of an unfinished poem and have added nothing whatsoever to the dramatic effect.

Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.

* The Quest of the Sangraal: Chant the First Exeter ( 1864 ) from an unfinished Arthurian poem

He added the poem to his Dagh-werck, which he left unfinished: the day he has described has not ended yet, but his Sterre is already dead.

Besides his poetry in Latin, which include an epic poem, the Thebaid, a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae, and the unfinished epic, the Achilleid, he is best known for his appearance as a major character in the Purgatory section of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy.

7. 83 ) only to complete a book and half before dying in 95 CE, leaving the poem unfinished.

It is thought that Statius ' death in 95 is the reason that the poem remains unfinished.

In Restoration England, John Dryden wrote a poem entitle " To Sir Robert Howard " that refers to Statius ' Achilleid ; Dryden criticizes Statius ' unfinished epic, calling it " too bold.

This undertaking was much more rigorous in textual criticism than the Berlin edition and solved many issues of interpretation raised by Hölderlin's unfinished and undated texts ( sometimes several versions of the same poem with major differences ).

In the poem, Wolfram's narrator expresses disdain for Chrétien's ( unfinished ) version of the tale, and states that his source was a poet from Provence called Kyot.

In an interlude set in " Xanadu ", a character claims that the universe is dangerous because the poem went unfinished, but whether this was his misapprehension or not is not established.

In fact, Keats's major works include the late 1818 poem " Hyperion " that was unfinished mainly due to the depression caused by the death of his brother Tom, and also the late 1819 poem " The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream " whose plot also revolves around the figures of Hyperion.

* 1650: A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem ( or simply Gondibert ), originally published unfinished, then published again in 1651 in its final form and included Davenant's " Preface to his most honour ’ d friend Mr. Hobs " and " The Answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sir William D ’ Avenant ’ s Preface before Gondibert " by Thomas Hobbes, to whom the book was dedicated ; the official second edition in 1653 also contained " Certain Verses, written by severall of the author ’ s friends "

Easter Day, written in Naples, was a passionate denial of the Resurrection and the fore-runner of the unfinished poem Dipsychus.

To this period belongs a long poem, the Veillées des Muses, which remained unfinished, and his ode to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, which ranks among his best works.

In the preface to his 1656 Poems, Cowley mentioned that he had completed three books of an epic poem on the Civil War, but had left it unfinished after the First Battle of Newbury when the Royalist cause began to lose significant ground.

He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an unfinished narrative poem on the settling of the United States.

He is believed to have continued till 1486, but then left the poem unfinished.

The omission of a Volume 2 was thought to have been in imitation of the Traveling Wilburys intentional numbering of their two albums as Volumes 1 and 3, but it was more in reference to an unfinished Volume 2 album that was not released.

His unfinished translation of the Iliad was completed after his death by John Conington.

The first preliminary was inspecting the unfinished length of frieze, a jumble of roughcast and finish coats, all in bad condition.

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

His most notable work, Vom Kriege ( On War ), was unfinished at his death.

Claudius ' temple was left unfinished after only some of the foundation had been laid down.

He was able to start the devolution process, and worked endlessly on creating the Scotland Act, popularly known as Smith's " unfinished business ".

" The work was unfinished at Eusebius ' death.

His unfinished history Athens: Its Rise and Fall was published posthumously.

( This chapter was left unfinished by the author.

The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished.

Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.

Two days after Tycho's unexpected death on October 24, 1601, Kepler was appointed his successor as imperial mathematician with the responsibility to complete his unfinished work.

The Grammar was continued in three volumes, treating principally derivation, composition and syntax, the last of which was unfinished.

The success of the novel and its serialized nature also allowed many imitators to publish pamphlets concerning the Shandean characters and other Shandean-related material even while the novel was yet unfinished.

Bloch has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through his unfinished manuscript The Historian's Craft, which he was working on at his death.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Michelangelo designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica on or before 1564, although it was unfinished when he died.

The temple was left unfinished during the years of Athenian democracy, apparently because the Greeks thought it hubristic to build on such a scale.

They either argue that it was left unfinished or say that earlier sources, such as Richard Eden's The Decades of the New Worlde Or West India ( 1555 ) and Desiderius Erasmus's Naufragium / The Shipwreck ( 1523 ), sufficiently account for some of the phrasing and images in The Tempest.

The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal ( now Ca ' Rezzonico ) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.

There was no single player support and some of the gameplay and graphics were unfinished or different from their final versions.