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Clarel in the Pacific.(problems in Herman Melville's poetry)(Critical Essay)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20031001
Author:Dewey, Colin

Of the over sixty papers presented at the fourth international Melville Conference in Lahaina, Hawaii, four directly addressed problems in Melville's poetry, some to a greater or lesser degree situating the poetry in relation to his Pacific years, some suggesting new approaches to aesthetic and formal issues posed by Melville's poetic efforts. I have chosen to look (not to say "Peep") at two of them, in which Sam Otter, from the University of California, Berkeley, and Warren Rosenberg of Wabash College, explore interestingly related passages in Clarel, A Poem and Pilgrimage in the ...

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