Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

ISBN-13: 9780810125407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 499 str.

Herman Melville; Comp Hershel Parker; Harrison Hayford

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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 and almost 18,000 lines about a naive 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 Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Clarel "is one of the most complex theological explorations of faith and doubt in all of American literature, and this edition brings Melville s poem to new life."