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Melville's quarrel with Milton: an introduction.(Herman Melville)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20020301
Author:Grey, Robin

It has been almost twenty years since Melville's marked and annotated copy of Milton's poetry first came to light. The two-volume Hilliard and Gray edition (1836) resurfaced in the 1980s, and was inspected by Jay Leyda when it first came up for sale in the mid-1980s. Purchased by a private collector, who in correspondence said to me he hoped to "do something" with them, the set essentially disappeared, and scholars' requests for access to the volumes were denied. The volumes came up for sale again in the late 1980s, this time at a London auction house. An alumnus of Princeton ...

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