/lit/ - Literature

Hands down, this is the most comprehensive and the most difficult book on poetics that I've ever read. The author's turned poetics into a strict science, and it's no wonder why even my professors won't touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Has anyone who's more advanced in poetry than me given this book a try? I'm relatively new to the scene, so I don't know if this book is actually worth it or not. Some chapters and passages are great in terms of explaining the subject matter, but some others are just totally incomprehensible and/or useless/redundant. This book is pretty much as impractical as you can get, but I still love it, nonetheless.