Melville as poet : the art of "pulsed life" /
"Herman Melville's literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rend...
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| Published: | Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2013] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Elizabeth Renker
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction / Douglas Robillard, revised and edited by Sanford E. Marovitz
- Pictorial intertexts for battle-pieces: Melville at the National Academy of Design, 1865 / Dennis Berthold
- Recontextualizing Melville's monitor poems / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
- Melville's biblical prints and Clarel / Robert K. Wallace
- Urban and metrical forms in Clarel / Peter Riley
- Clarel in Italy, Italy in Clarel:from poem to poema / Gordon M. Poole
- A picture stamped in memory's mint: John Marr and other sailors / A. Robert Lee
- Connecting by contrast: the "art" of Timoleon, etc. / Sanford E. Marovitz
- A failure to communicate: Shelley's "Julian and Maddalo" and Melville's "Pausilippo" / Vernon Shetley
- "Isles of Absentees": the form of the archipelago in Melville's writing / Michael Jonik
- "Free Robe and Vest": Melville's uncontrolled verse / Wyn Kelley
- Melville and the poetics of ventriloquism: giving voice "At the Hostelry" / Clark Davis
- Literary reprises: rhetorical staging and dramatic performance in Melville's prose-and-verse writings / Robert Sandberg
- List of contributors
- index.