{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-herman-melville-paperback","title":"Selected Poems of Herman Melville - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert Faggen\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile best known for such novels as his monumental \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville's poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces and Aspects of the War\u003c\/i\u003e, along with Melville's own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of \u003ci\u003eClarel: A Poem \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage in the Holy Land\u003c\/i\u003e; selections from Melville's later books, \u003ci\u003e Timoleon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Marr and Other Sailors\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWeeds and Wildings, Chiefly, with a Rose or Two\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as a number of his powerful and lesserknown uncollected poems. This volume will usher in a new appreciation for Melville's poetic gifts. Includes a new introduction to Melville's life and later career as a poet during the Civil War and Gilded Age, as well as notes and suggestions for further reading. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece \u003cb\u003eMoby-Dick.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, \u003cb\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/b\u003e, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Faggen\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at Claremont McKenna College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 7.7 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984006283565,"sku":"9780143039037","price":21.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/6oLciSzDF_9780143039037.webp?v=1776081342","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-herman-melville-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}