Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land - Couverture rigide

Melville

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0810109069 ISBN 13 : 9780810109063

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 1991

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 naïve 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).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Harrison Hayford (1916-2001) was professor of English at Northwestern University and was considered the world's most influential Melville scholar. He was general editor of the multivolume Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810109069
• ISBN 13: 9780810109063
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 893
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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