{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-herman-melville-isbn-9780143039037","title":"Selected Poems of Herman Melville","description":"While best known for such novels as his monumental \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville’s poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces and Aspects of the War\u003c\/i\u003e, along with Melville’s own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of \u003ci\u003eClarel: A Poem \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage in the Holy Land\u003c\/i\u003e; selections from Melville’s later books,\u003ci\u003e Timoleon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Marr and Other Sailors\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWeeds and Wildings, Chiefly, with a Rose or Two\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as a number of his powerful and lesserknown uncollected poems. This volume will usher in a new appreciation for Melville’s poetic gifts. Includes a new introduction to Melville's life and later career as a poet during the Civil War and Gilded Age, as well as notes and suggestions for further reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Texts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces and Aspects of the War\u003c\/i\u003e (1866)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Portent\u003cbr\u003eMisgivings\u003cbr\u003eThe Conflict of Convictions\u003cbr\u003eApathy and Enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003eThe March into Virginia\u003cbr\u003eBall's Bluff\u003cbr\u003eDuPont's Round Fight\u003cbr\u003eDonelson\u003cbr\u003eIn the Turret\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eTemeraire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Utilitarian View of the \u003ci\u003eMonitor\u003c\/i\u003e's Fight\u003cbr\u003eShiloh\u003cbr\u003eBattle of Stone River, Tennessee\u003cbr\u003eThe House-top\u003cbr\u003eThe Armies of the Wilderness\u003cbr\u003eOn the Photograph of a Corps Commander\u003cbr\u003eThe Swamp Angel\u003cbr\u003eSheridan at Cedar Creek\u003cbr\u003eThe College Colonel\u003cbr\u003eA Dirge for McPherson\u003cbr\u003eAt the Cannon's Mouth\u003cbr\u003eThe March to the Sea\u003cbr\u003eThe Frenzy in the Wake\u003cbr\u003eThe Surrender at Appomattox\u003cbr\u003eA Canticle\u003cbr\u003eThe Martyr\u003cbr\u003e\"The Coming Storm\"\u003cbr\u003eRebel Color-bearers at Shiloh\u003cbr\u003eThe Muster\u003cbr\u003e\"Formerly a Slave.\"\u003cbr\u003eMagnanimity Baffled\u003cbr\u003eOn the Slain Collegians\u003cbr\u003eAmerica\u003cbr\u003eVerses Inscriptive and Memorial\u003cbr\u003e  On the Home Guards\u003cbr\u003e  The Fortitude of the North\u003cbr\u003e  An Uninscribed Monument\u003cbr\u003e  On the Grave\u003cbr\u003e  On a Natural Monument\u003cbr\u003e  Commemorative of a Naval Victory\u003cbr\u003eThe Scout toward Aldie\u003cbr\u003eLee in the Capitol\u003cbr\u003eA Meditation\u003cbr\u003eSupplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eClarel\u003c\/i\u003e (1876)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e  I. The Hostel\u003cbr\u003e  IV. Of the Crusaders\u003cbr\u003e  XIII. The Arch\u003cbr\u003e  XVII. Nathan\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The Wilderness\u003cbr\u003e  IV. Of Mortmain\u003cbr\u003e  XI. Of Deserts\u003cbr\u003e  XXII. Concerning Hebrews\u003cbr\u003e  XXXI. The Inscription\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIV. Mortmain Reappears\u003cbr\u003e  XXXV. Prelusive\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVI. Sodom\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Mar Saba\u003cbr\u003e  V. The High Desert\u003cbr\u003e  XXIX. Rolfe and the Palm\u003cbr\u003e  XXXII. Empty Stirrups\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Bethlehem\u003cbr\u003e  XX. Derwent and Ungar\u003cbr\u003e  XXI. Ungar and Rolfe\u003cbr\u003e  XXX. The Valley of Decision\u003cbr\u003e  XXXI. Dirge\u003cbr\u003e  XXXII. Passion Week\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIII. Easter\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIV. Via Crucis\u003cbr\u003e  XXXV. Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eJohn Marr and Other Sailors\u003c\/i\u003e (1888)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Marr and Other Sailors\u003cbr\u003e  John Marr\u003cbr\u003e  Tom Deadlight\u003cbr\u003e  Jack Roy\u003cbr\u003eSea-Pieces\u003cbr\u003e  The Haglets\u003cbr\u003eMinor Sea-Pieces\u003cbr\u003e  The Man-of-War Hawk\u003cbr\u003e  The Tuft of Kelp\u003cbr\u003e  The Maldive Shark\u003cbr\u003e  Crossing the Tropics\u003cbr\u003e  The Berg\u003cbr\u003e  The Enviable Isles\u003cbr\u003ePebbles\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eTimoleon\u003c\/i\u003e (1891)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimoleon\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Pleasure Party\u003cbr\u003eThe Night-march\u003cbr\u003eThe Ravaged Villa\u003cbr\u003eThe Margrave's Birthnight\u003cbr\u003eMagian Wine\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden of Metrodorus\u003cbr\u003eThe Weaver\u003cbr\u003eLamia's Song\u003cbr\u003eIn a Garret\u003cbr\u003eMonody\u003cbr\u003eLone Founts\u003cbr\u003eThe Bench of Boors\u003cbr\u003eThe Enthusiast\u003cbr\u003eArt\u003cbr\u003eBuddha\u003cbr\u003eC——'s Lament\u003cbr\u003eShelley's Vision\u003cbr\u003eFragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century\u003cbr\u003eThe Marchioness of Brinvilliers\u003cbr\u003eThe Age of the Antonines\u003cbr\u003eHerba Santa\u003cbr\u003eFruit of Travel Long Ago\u003cbr\u003e  Venice\u003cbr\u003e  In a Bye-Canal\u003cbr\u003e  Pisa's Leaning Tower\u003cbr\u003e  In a Church of Padua\u003cbr\u003e  Milan Cathedral\u003cbr\u003e  The Parthenon\u003cbr\u003e  Greek Masonry\u003cbr\u003e  Greek Architecture\u003cbr\u003e  The Apparition\u003cbr\u003e  In the Desert\u003cbr\u003e  The Great Pyramid\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eWeeds and Wildings Chiefly: With a Rose or Two\u003c\/i\u003e (1924)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClover\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Good-Fellows\u003cbr\u003eTrophies of Peace\u003cbr\u003eThe American Aloe on Exhibition\u003cbr\u003eThe New Rosicrucians\u003cbr\u003eThe  New Ancient of Days\u003cbr\u003eImmolated\u003cbr\u003eThe Rusty Man\u003cbr\u003eCamoens\u003cbr\u003eMontaigne and His Kitten\u003cbr\u003eGold in the Mountain\u003cbr\u003eA Spirit Appeared to Me\u003cbr\u003eHearts-of-gold\u003cbr\u003ePontoosuce\u003cbr\u003eBilly in the Darbies (from \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex of First Lines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece \u003cb\u003eMoby-Dick.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, \u003cb\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/b\u003e, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Faggen\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at Claremont McKenna College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304776421605,"sku":"NP9780143039037","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143039037.jpg?v=1767736319","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-herman-melville-isbn-9780143039037","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}