Clarel Volume Twelve, Scholarly Edition |
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Author:
| Melville, Herman |
Editor:
| Parker, Hershel Tanselle, G. Thomas Hayford, Harrison |
Series title: | Melville Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8101-0906-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1991 |
Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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Melville's long poem
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos of almost 18,000 lines, about a naïve American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions. But modern critics have found
Clarel a much...
More Description Melville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos of almost 18,000 lines, about a naïve American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions. But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land.