TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parker,Hershel
TI  - Melville: the making of the poet
SN  - 9780810124646 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PS 2387 .P28 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Evanston, Ill.
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Melville, Herman,
N1  - 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contents of poems (1860), -- On the meteor: Melville when he thought he was a published poet -- His verse still unpublished, Melville defines himself as poet, 1861-1862 -- Battle-pieces and aspects of the war: Melville's second volume of poems
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