| Clarel: Volume Twelve, Scholarly Edition Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author), Parker, Hershel (Editor), Tanselle, G. Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0810109069 ISBN-13: 9780810109063 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.3 |
| LCCN: 90060361 |
| Series: Melville |
| Physical Information: 2.22" H x 6.28" W x 9.14" (2.70 lbs) 893 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 na ve 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). |