Selected Poems of Herman Melville: Melville, Herman (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039032 ISBN 13: 9780143039037

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

Melville is primarily known as a novelist, though critics regard him as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, in the tier just beneath Whitman and Dickinson. This volume is edited by Robert Faggen.

Biografía del autor:

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039032
• ISBN 13: 9780143039037
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384