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Item Details
Title:
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CLAREL
A POEM AND PILGRIMAGE IN THE HOLY LAND |
By: |
Melville |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£117.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0810109069 |
ISBN 13: |
9780810109063 |
Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 April, 1991 |
Edition: |
Annotated edition |
Pages: |
893 |
Synopsis: |
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 of 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 argued that the character Vine is a portrait of Melville's friend Hawthorne. Based on the only edition published during Melville's lifetime, this scholarly edition adopts thirty-nine corrections from a copy marked by Melville and incorporates 154 emendations by the present editors, an also includes a section of related documents and extensive discussions. This scholarly edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). |
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illustrations |
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US |
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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