Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson

Northwestern University Press, 1991 - 893 sider

Melville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos of almost 18,000 lines, about a naïve American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions.

But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land. It abounds with revelations of Melville's inner life. Most strikingly, it is argued that the character Vine is a portrait of Melville's friend Hawthorne. Based on the only edition published during Melville's lifetime, this scholarly edition adopts thirty-nine corrections from a copy marked by Melville and incorporates 154 emendations by the present editors, an also includes a section of related documents and extensive discussions.

This scholarly edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

Indhold

• The Hostel: 3
• Canto: 8
• The Sepulchre: 12
• ByPlaces: 70
• Canto 24: 77
• Canto 27: 84
• The Recluse: 91
• Of Rama: 103
• Arculf and Adamnan: 110
• Canto 38: 118
• Canto 42: 127
• Canto I: 133
• Canto 2: 140
• Of Mortmain: 140
• Clarel and Glaucon: 150
• Rolfe and Derwent: 157
• Of Deserts: 168
• Flight of the Greeks: 172
• Canto 15: 180
• In MidWatch: 186
• The Priest and Rolfe: 197
• Canto 23: 205
• Canto 25: 213
• Vine and Clarel: 224
• By the Marge: 230
• Canto 31: 237
• Lots: 243
• Canto 10: 249
• Of Traditions: 253
• In the Mountain: 263
• Of the Many Mansions: 270
• Canto 11: 295
• The Timoneers Story: 306
• Canto 19: 333
• Canto 24: 354
• Vine and the Palm: 361
• Canto 28: 368
• The Recoil: 378
• The Ensign: 388
• Canto 3: 395
• A Monument: 415
• The Church of the Star: 424
• Canto 14: 431
• A Transition: 442
• Canto 20: 453
• Canto 22: 461
• The Prodigal: 468
• Canto 30: 486
• Easter: 494
• EDITORIAL APPENDIX: 501
• Canto 5: 507
• TEXTUAL RECORD: 540
• Canto 4: 583
• Derwent: 603
• Clarel: 720
• Canto 6: 730
• Canto 7: 756
• Lower Gihon: 765
• Celio: 775
• In the Glen: 792
• Canto 11: 819
• Nathan: 834
• List of Emendations: 841
• The Fulfillment: 848
• RELATED DOCUMENTS: 849
• Elizabeth Shaw Melvilles Copies of Clarel: 865
• Vale of Ashes: 867
• Parallel Passages in Clarel and Melvilles 185657 Journal: 871
• For Hawthorne?: 883

Om forfatteren

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land; Bind 12 af Melville Series; Bind 12 af Melville, Herman: [The writings]; Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville; Bind 12 af The writings of Herman Melville : the Northwestern-Newberry edition; Bind 12 af The writings, Herman Melville; Bind 12 af Works, Herman Melville; Bind 12 af Writings of Herman Melville 99-0031820-X, Herman Melville
• Forfattere: Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson
• Redaktører: Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson
• Udgave: kommenteret
• Udgiver: Northwestern University Press, 1991
• ISBN: 0810109077, 9780810109070
• Længde: 893 sider