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Herman Melville, realist poet.(Brief Article)

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From: Melville Society Extracts
Date: 20020701
Author:Renker, Elizabeth

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Melville's poetry, mostly centering, on the question of whether or not his poems are actually"good." William Spengemann and I engaged in a debate on the subject in the Spring/Summer 2000 issue of American Literary History. Spengemann, advocating the merits of the poems, also maintained that they continue to languish undeservedly in obscurity. I, sharing Spengemann's views of the poems' merits, argued that Spengemann was wrong on the reception history: the poems, I argued, have always had a small devoted band of adherents; ...

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