Melville: The Making of the PoetNorthwestern University Press, 2008 - Počet stran: 238 “Who would have looked for philosophy in whales, or for poetry in blubber?” the London John Bull remarked in October of 1851. And yet, the reviewer went on, “few books which professedly deal in metaphysics, or claim the parentage of the muses, contain as much true philosophy and as much genuine poetry as the tale of the Pequod's whaling expedition.” A decade and a half before surprising the world with a book of Civil war poetry, Melville was already confident of what was “poetic” in his prose. As Hershel Parker demonstrates in this book, Melville was steeped in poetry long before he called himself a poet. |
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... Melville published poetry long before turning intensively to it " ( 138 ) . A more precise statement might be that " Melville turned in- tensively to poetry ( in the late 1850s ) long before publishing any the ambitious poetry he wrote ...
... wrote to her stepmother in 1875 ( Log 741 ) , in the act of violating Herman's wish that she keep it secret that he had been writing poetry again , as he ... Melville's volume of poems , and probably Fanny MELVILLE'S PROGRESS AS POET • 127.
... Melville wrote to Evert Duyckinck on board the Meteor in Boston Harbor on May 28 , he explained that his wife would send " the parcel " of poems " in the course of a week or so there remaining something to be finished in copying the ...
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CHAPTER TWO Melville as Hearer and Reciter of Poetry | 23 |
CHAPTER THREE The Omnipresence of Poetry 1820s1848 | 31 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Melvilles Progress as Poet 1857? | 125 |
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