Melville : the making of the poet /
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press,
[2008], ©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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- His verse still unpublished, Melville defines himself as poet, 1861-1862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.