TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shurr,William
TI  - The mystery of iniquity: Melville as poet, 1857--1891 
T2  - South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Award study
SN  - 9780813164632
AV  - PS2387 .S5 1972
U1  - 811/.3 
PY  - 1972///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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