MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01450nam a22002418a 4500
001 2007023779
003 DLC
005 20070607145610.0
008 070607s2007 ilu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007023779
020 $a9780810124646 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0810124645 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPS2387$b.P28 2007
082 00 $a813/.3$222
100 1 $aParker, Hershel.
245 10 $aMelville :$bthe making of the poet /$cHershel Parker.
260 $aEvanston, Ill. :$bNorthwestern University Press,$c2007.
263 $a0801
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMelville's lost books and the trajectory of his career as poet -- A poet in prose: how critics prepared Melville to think of himself as a poet -- Melville as hearer and reciter of poetry -- The omnipresence of poetry, 1820s-1848 -- The renewed power of poetry in Melville's life, 1849-1856 -- The status of poetry and the temptation of flunkeyism -- A nonpartisan becoming a poet during the Risorgimento -- Melville's progress as poet, 1857(?) to May 1860 -- Possible contents of poems (1860), -- On the meteor: Melville when he thought he was a published poet -- His verse still unpublished, Melville defines himself as poet, 1861-1862 -- Battle-pieces and aspects of the war: Melville's second volume of poems.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xCriticism and interpretation.