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A comprehensive collection of the poetry of a presiding genius of American literature While best known for such novels as his monumental "Moby-Dick," Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville's poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from "Battle-Pieces" and "Aspects of the War," along with Melville's own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of "Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land"; selections from Melville's later books, "Timoleon, John Marr and Other Sailors," and "Weeds and Wildings, Chiefly, with a Rose or Two"; as well as a number of his powerful and lesserknown uncollected poems. This volume will usher in a new appreciation for Melville's poetic gifts.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Selected Poems of Herman Melville
• Author: Herman Melville, Robert Faggen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780143039037
• ISBN: 0143039032
• ID: 11343150
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 197 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. June 2006

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