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Indlæser... Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous & ... (Library of America Herman Melville Edition) (udgave 2019)af Herman Melville (Forfatter)
Work InformationHerman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous & ... (Library of America Herman Melville Edition) af Herman Melville
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Poetry is regarded as the highest form of language yet very few have a full grasp of its innate beauty of expression. Here we see in this volume, Melville's poetry is truly a marvel of expression. Throughout his life, Melville was constantly overshadowed by better writers than he in spite of "Moby Dick" which in itself showed his greatness as an expressive writer. Initially, his "Typee" & "Omoo" hurt him because the reading public failed to notice how minutely detailed he was. It is his poetry that truly established his innate ability not only as a writer but also his standing among the others like Hawthorne, Irving, Longfellow, & Twain in his day. His "Clarel" was in a sense a classic compared to Longfellow's "Hiawatha" but it is his "Battle-pieces" poems that really showed his command of the English language. Overall, the reader will be pleased to read these poems as well as his "Clarel" & discover a true poet in every sense of the word. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise physical detail and rich metaphysical speculation in an unorthodox style and with a compressed power uniquely his own. The fruit of decades of textual scholarship, this fourth and final volume of the Library of America Melville edition gathers for the first time in one volume all of Melville's poems: the four books of poetry published in his lifetime, his uncollected poems, and the poems from two projected volumes of poetry and prose left unfinished at his death. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is both a deeply philosophical work of mourning for the Civil War dead and a fascinating record of campaigns and battles and the war's immediate aftermath. With a cast of characters to rival Moby-Dick, the epic poem Clarel, about a young American divinity student's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, plumbs the profound existential and religious questions that haunted Melville throughout his life. In two late privately issued books, the retrospective John Marr and Other Sailors and Timoleon Etc., the aging poet returns to the nautical scenes and reading of his youth. Many of the poems in the two manuscripts left unfinished at Melville's death, Weeds and Wildings and Parthenope, have not been previously available in a reliable trade edition."--Publisher. No library descriptions found. |
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