Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems PDF Author: Macaulay
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Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems PDF Author: Macaulay
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Pages : 370

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Forms of Discovery

Forms of Discovery PDF Author: Yvor Winters
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Published Poems

Published Poems PDF Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810111128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 961

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Although he surprised the world in 1866 with his first published book of poetry, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Herman Melville had long been steeped in poetry. This new offering in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry series, The Writings of Herman Melville, with a historical note by Hershel Parker, is testament to Melville the poet. Penultimate in the publication of the series, Published Poems follows the release of Melville’s verse epic, Clarel (1876), and with it, contains the entirety of the poems published during Melville’s lifetime: Battle-Pieces, as well as John Marr and Other Sailors, with Some Sea-Pieces (1888), and Timoleon Etc. (1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War has long been recognized as a great contribution to the poetry of the Civil War, comparable only to Whitman’s Drum-Taps. Its idiosyncrasies, many of them grounded in British poetry, kept it from immediate popularity, but it was not the production of a novice. Melville had made himself over into a poet in the late 1850s and had tried to publish a previous collection of poetry—now lost—in 1860. John Marr and Other Sailors is a retrospective nautical book. Its portraits of sailors were influenced by Melville’s own experience of aging as well as by his long acquaintance with wasted mariners at the Sailors’ Snug Harbor on Staten Island, where his brother was governor. The book modulates into "Sea-Pieces," including the grisly "Maldive Shark" and "To Ned," a powerful reflection on how Melville’s personal adventures with the Typee islanders in 1842 had accrued rich historical significance over the decades. Thematically less unified, Timoleon Etc. contains poems with many European and exotic settings from ancient to modern times. The most famous are "After the Pleasure Party" and "The Age of the Antonines." Published in the last year of Melville’s life, some of the poems were first written many years earlier; for example, Melville copied "The Age of the Antonines" out for his brother-in-law in 1877, describing it as something found in a bundle of old papers. One whole section seems to have been almost entirely salvaged from the unpublished 1860 volume of poetry. As with the other volumes in the Northwestern-Newberry series, the aim of this edition of Published Poems is to present a text as close to the author’s intention as surviving evidence permits. To that end, the editorial appendix includes a historical note by Hershel Parker, the dean of Melville scholars, which gives a compelling, in-depth account of how one of America’s greatest writers grew into the vocation of a poet; an essay by G. Thomas Tanselle on the printing and publishing history of the works in Published Poems; a textual record that identifies the copy-texts for the present edition and explains the editorial policy; and substantial scholarly notes on individual poems.

Classed List

Classed List PDF Author: Princeton University. Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1248

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English Literature

English Literature PDF Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Among Our Books

Among Our Books PDF Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF Author:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Finding List

Finding List PDF Author: Boston Public Library. West End Branch
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Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Catalogue of the Ohio State Library

Catalogue of the Ohio State Library PDF Author: Ohio State Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Finding-list of Books in the Classes of Poetry and the Drama, Literature and Polygraphy, Belonging to the Public Library of Indianapolis

Finding-list of Books in the Classes of Poetry and the Drama, Literature and Polygraphy, Belonging to the Public Library of Indianapolis PDF Author: Indianapolis Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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