Selected Poems (Melville, Herman) (Penguin Classics)

While best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick , Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville’s poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War , along with Melville’s own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land ; selections from Melville’s later books, Timoleon , John Marr and Other Sailors , and Weeds and Wildings , Chiefly, with a Rose or Two ; as well as a number of his powerful and lesserknown uncollected poems. This volume will usher in a new appreciation for Melville’s poetic gifts. Includes a new introduction to Melville's life and later career as a poet during the Civil War and Gilded Age, as well as notes and suggestions for further reading

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