Macdougall Alma A (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 847 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Moderate shelf wear with creases along front and back pages, otherwise an overall intact and unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This book is new and still in the shrink wrap. Likely a first edition, owned by an English professor and Melville Scholar. 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). The aim of this edition of Clarel, volume twelve in the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writing of Herman Melville, is to present a text as close to the authors intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on the only edition published during Melville's lifetime, it adopts 39 corrections from a copy marked by Melville and incorporates 154 emendations by the present editors. Contains Walter Bezanson's definitive "Critical Note" and his other apparatus.…

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