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"Tears of the happy": the design of darkness in "To Winnefred" and "The Year".

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20071001
Author:Evans, Lyon

When Herman Melville died at age 72, on September 28, 1891, he left in manuscript Weeds and Wildings Chiefly: with a Rose or Two, a volume of poems consisting of a dedicatory prose preface titled "To Winnefred"; "Part I: The Year," seventeen short poems commemorating a year in the country from spring to winter; "Part II: This, That and the Other," eight lyrics about nature and plant life; "Part III: Rip Van Winkle's Lilac," a combined prose and verse sketch; and, at the end, "A Rose or Two," eleven poems about roses. (1)

While the rose poems have gained scholarly attention in ...

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