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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Herman Melville
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Description for Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Paperback. Editor(s): Parker, Professor Hershel, Comp (University of Delaware); Hayford, Harrison; Tanselle, G Thomas; Macdougall Reising, Alma. Num Pages: 499 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
Melville’s long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville’s advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions.
But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land. It abounds with revelations of Melville’s inner life. Most strikingly, it is ... Read more
Melville’s long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville’s advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions.
But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land. It abounds with revelations of Melville’s inner life. Most strikingly, it is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
499
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810125407
SKU
V9780810125407
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