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Melville : the making of the poet
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- Creator
- Hershel Parker
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- x, 238 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810124646, 0810124645
- OCLC
- ocn141484496
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index.
- Melville's lost books and the trajectory of his career as poet -- A poet in prose: how critics prepared Melville to think of himself as a poet -- Melville as hearer and reciter of poetry -- The omnipresence of poetry, 1820s-1848 -- The renewed power of poetry in Melville's life, 1849-1856 -- The status of poetry and the temptation of flunkeyism -- A nonpartisan becoming a poet during the Risorgimento -- Melville's progress as poet, 1857(?) to May 1860 -- Possible contents of Poems (1860) -- On the Meteor: Melville when he thought he was a published poet -- His verse still unpublished, Melville defines himself as poet, 1861-1862 -- Battle-pieces and aspects of the war: Melville's second volume of poems