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Complete poems / Herman Melville ; Hershel Parker, editor ; [notes, Robert A. Sandberg].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 320.Publisher: New York : The Library of America, [2019]Description: 990 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781598536188
  • 1598536184
Other title:
  • Herman Melville : collected poems
Uniform titles:
  • Poems.
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Battle-pieces and aspects of the war
  • Container of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Clarel
  • Container of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. John Marr and other sailors
  • Container of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Timoleon
  • Container of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Weeds and wildings
  • Container of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Parthenope
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land -- John Marr and other sailors with some sea pieces -- Timoleon etc. -- Weeds and wildings chiefly: with A rose for two -- Parthenop -- Uncollected poetry and prose-and-verse
Summary: "Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise physical detail and rich metaphysical speculation in an unorthodox style and with a compressed power uniquely his own. The fruit of decades of textual scholarship, this fourth and final volume of the Library of America Melville edition gathers for the first time in one volume all of Melville's poems: the four books of poetry published in his lifetime, his uncollected poems, and the poems from two projected volumes of poetry and prose left unfinished at his death. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is both a deeply philosophical work of mourning for the Civil War dead and a fascinating record of campaigns and battles and the war's immediate aftermath. With a cast of characters to rival Moby-Dick, the epic poem Clarel, about a young American divinity student's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, plumbs the profound existential and religious questions that haunted Melville throughout his life. In two late privately issued books, the retrospective John Marr and Other Sailors and Timoleon Etc., the aging poet returns to the nautical scenes and reading of his youth. Many of the poems in the two manuscripts left unfinished at Melville's death, Weeds and Wildings and Parthenope, have not been previously available in a reliable trade edition."--Publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.3 M531 Available 33111009702420
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ranging from Civil War battlefields to the haunted byways of the Holy Land, from close observation of nature to deep philosophical mediation, Melville's poetry was central to his life and art and he justly ranks with Whitman and Dickinson as one of America's three greatest 19th-century poets. Complete here for the first time are all four books of poetry he published in his lifetime plus uncollected poems and the poems from two projected volumes left unfinished at the time of his death, allowing readers to appreciate for themselves the extraordinary range of his poetic achievement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land -- John Marr and other sailors with some sea pieces -- Timoleon etc. -- Weeds and wildings chiefly: with A rose for two -- Parthenop -- Uncollected poetry and prose-and-verse

"Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise physical detail and rich metaphysical speculation in an unorthodox style and with a compressed power uniquely his own. The fruit of decades of textual scholarship, this fourth and final volume of the Library of America Melville edition gathers for the first time in one volume all of Melville's poems: the four books of poetry published in his lifetime, his uncollected poems, and the poems from two projected volumes of poetry and prose left unfinished at his death. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is both a deeply philosophical work of mourning for the Civil War dead and a fascinating record of campaigns and battles and the war's immediate aftermath. With a cast of characters to rival Moby-Dick, the epic poem Clarel, about a young American divinity student's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, plumbs the profound existential and religious questions that haunted Melville throughout his life. In two late privately issued books, the retrospective John Marr and Other Sailors and Timoleon Etc., the aging poet returns to the nautical scenes and reading of his youth. Many of the poems in the two manuscripts left unfinished at Melville's death, Weeds and Wildings and Parthenope, have not been previously available in a reliable trade edition."--Publisher.

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