Melville : the making of the poet Hershel Parker.
Material type: TextPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2008.Description: x, 238 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780810124646 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0810124645 (cloth : alk. paper)
- PS 2387 .P28 2008
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General circulation | Mtito Andei Centre Library General Stacks | PS 2387 .P28 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | amk | 2015/007965 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-223) and index.
Melville's lost books and the trajectory of his career as poet -- A poet in prose: how critics prepared Melville to think of himself as a poet -- Melville as hearer and reciter of poetry -- The omnipresence of poetry, 1820s-1848 -- The renewed power of poetry in Melville's life, 1849-1856 -- The status of poetry and the temptation of flunkeyism -- A nonpartisan becoming a poet during the Risorgimento -- Melville's progress as poet, 1857(?) to May 1860 -- Possible contents of poems (1860), -- On the meteor: Melville when he thought he was a published poet -- His verse still unpublished, Melville defines himself as poet, 1861-1862 -- Battle-pieces and aspects of the war: Melville's second volume of poems.
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