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"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 Sha...

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Main Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (Author)
Other Authors: Parker, Hershel (Editor), Sandberg, Robert A. (Robert Allen) (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Library of America, [2019]
Series:Library of America ; 320.
Subjects:
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > Poetry.
Sailing > Poetry.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry.
American poetry > 19th century.
American Civil War (1861-1865)
American poetry.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Sailing.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Poetry.
Table of 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
  • Parthenope
  • Uncollected poetry and prose-and-verse.