The Mystery of Iniquity [electronic resource] : Melville as Poet, 1857--1891 / [by] William H. Shurr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shurr, William.

Series:

South Atlantic Modern Language Association award study.

South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Award study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Poetic works.

Melville, Herman.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1972.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life and reading during those years and of the intellectual and artistic ambience of the later nineteenth century. With the exception of Billy Budd, almost all of the writing Melville produced between 1857 and 1891 is poetry. Until now little attention has been given to the poetry and it has been customary to view Melville's final masterpiece, Billy Budd, against the background of the earlier fiction -- almost as if the writing of the intervening thirty-four years had not existed.Will

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. BATTLE-PIECES; II. CLAREL: THE STATIC ELEMENTS; III. CLAREL: THE DYNAMICS OF THE SYMBOL; IV. JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS; V. TIMOLEON, ETC.; VI. WEEDS AND WILDINGS; VII. THE BURGUNDY CLUB SKETCHES AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS; VIII. THE ART OF POETRY AND BILLY BUDD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: p. [275]-279.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6463-X

OCLC:

900345235