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ALA 2002: Why is Melville a good poet?(Herman Melville)(Brief Article)

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From: Melville Society Extracts
Date: 20020701
Author:Djelal, Juana Celia

The year 2000 saw a new edition of Herman Melville's poetry published by Douglas Robillard, and Lisa Lipkin's edition of Battle Pieces: Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville. Melville's poems have also found wider representation in two important anthologies, Spengemann's Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, and Hollander's two-volume edition with the same title; and most recently John Bryant has edited Melville's Tales, Poems and Other Writings. In view of this resurgent interest in Melville the poet, we solicited papers that reassess his poetic corpus and Melville as an American ...

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