Leviathan, October 1st, 2007
"The poet Herman Melville"--the words still strike us as an odd surprise. The general public, aware of Melville as a great American author even if they have not read his work, associates him exclusively with fiction. Scholars, including scholars of American literature, are often unfamiliar with his poetry or unaware of his extensive work in the genre. While most of his fiction was published between 1846 and 1857--a scant (and phenomenal) eleven years--he wrote and published poems almost exclusively for over three decades, beginning in the late 1850s.
Though we cannot be sure, Melville's ear...
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