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Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
Taschenbuch von Herman Melville
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From short masterpieces like "Bartleby the Scrivener” and "Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem "Clarel,” Melville's stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology-the first of its kind in fifty years-gathers together all of Melville's tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose poems, literary criticism, letters, lectures, and poetry. Though few realize it today, poetry was Melville's abiding passion; yet his poetry has never received the recognition it deserves, until now.

Containing many writings available nowhere else, and edited by leading Melville scholar John Bryant, Tales, Poems, and Other Writings includes a comprehensive introductory essay and extensive, in many cases groundbreaking, editorial commentary. It opens a window onto Melville's writing process-he was a ceaseless reviser and experimenter-and reveals his career-long evolution as a writer as well as the full breadth of his literary achievement. And it marks a new stage in our ability to appreciate not only the work of one of our greatest writers, but the immense dedication that lay behind it.

John Bryant is a professor of English at Hofstra University. He has published five books and numerous articles on Melville, and is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Typee and the Modern Library edition of The Confidence-Man. He has been the general editor of the Melville Society, one of the oldest and largest single-author societies in America, since 1990.
From short masterpieces like "Bartleby the Scrivener” and "Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem "Clarel,” Melville's stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology-the first of its kind in fifty years-gathers together all of Melville's tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose poems, literary criticism, letters, lectures, and poetry. Though few realize it today, poetry was Melville's abiding passion; yet his poetry has never received the recognition it deserves, until now.

Containing many writings available nowhere else, and edited by leading Melville scholar John Bryant, Tales, Poems, and Other Writings includes a comprehensive introductory essay and extensive, in many cases groundbreaking, editorial commentary. It opens a window onto Melville's writing process-he was a ceaseless reviser and experimenter-and reveals his career-long evolution as a writer as well as the full breadth of his literary achievement. And it marks a new stage in our ability to appreciate not only the work of one of our greatest writers, but the immense dedication that lay behind it.

John Bryant is a professor of English at Hofstra University. He has published five books and numerous articles on Melville, and is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Typee and the Modern Library edition of The Confidence-Man. He has been the general editor of the Melville Society, one of the oldest and largest single-author societies in America, since 1990.
Über den Autor
Herman Melville (born Melvill;[a] August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his works were not widely appreciated at the time of his death, the centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival in which critics re-evaluated his work and his novels became recognized as world classics.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant. His formal education ended abruptly after the death of his father in 1832 left the family in financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet but jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book and its sequel, Omoo (1847) were travel-adventures based on his experiences there. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaw, a daughter of a prominent Boston family. His first book not based on his own experience, Mardi (1849), was not well received. His novels Redburn (1849) and White Jacket (1850) were given better reviews but did not provide financial security.
Moby-Dick (1851), although now considered one of the great American novels, was not well received by contemporary critics. His psychological novel, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) was also scorned by reviewers. From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, which was collected in 1856 as The Piazza Tales. In 1857, he traveled to England and then toured the Near East, and that same year published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863 to take a position as Customs Inspector. From that point, he focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In an emotionally jarring incident, in 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, left one volume unpublished, and returned to prose of the sea. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE V
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
HERMAN MELVILLE: A WRITER IN PROCESS
by John Bryant XVII
A NOTE ON THE TEXT LI
PART ONE. STARTING OUT
FRAGMENTS FROM A WRITING DESK, NO. 2 5
VERSIONS OF TYPEE: TYPEE, CHAPTER 14 14
PART TWO. THE ART OF TELLING THE TRUTH
LETTERS 29
From Letter to John Murray, 15 July 1846 29
To Evert A. Duyckinck, 3 March 1849 32
Contents
To Evert A. Duyckinck, 5 April 1849 33
From Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck, 13 December 1850 35
To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [16 April?] 1851 36
To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [1 June?] 1851 38
To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [17?] November 1851 42
To Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 8 January 1852 44
HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES 47
PART THREE. TALES AND SKETCHES
BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER 65
COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! 99
FROM THE ENCANTADAS: THE CHOLA WIDOW 121
THE TWO TEMPLES 134
THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND
THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS 147
THE BELL-TOWER 168
BENITO CERENO 182
THE ’GEES 258
I AND MY CHIMNEY 264
THE PIAZZA 291
PART FOUR. STATUES IN ROME AND POEMS BY
HERMAN MELVILLE
STATUES IN ROME 307
POEMS BY HERMAN MELVILLE 319
Madam Mirror 319
Fruit and Flower Painter 320
xii . Contents
The New Ancient of Days, or
The Man of the Cave of Engihoul 321
To ——. 323
VERSIONS OF “CAMOËNS”: BEFORE AND AFTER 325
Immolated 330
Pontoosuce 331
PART FIVE. FROM BATTLE-PIECES
The Portent 337
Misgivings 337
The Conflict of Convictions 338
The March into Virginia 341
Dupont’s Round Fight 342
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight 343
Shiloh 344
Malvern Hill 344
The House-top 346
The Armies of the Wilderness 347
The Swamp Angel 354
The College Colonel 356
“The Coming Storm” 357
“Formerly a Slave” 357
The Apparition (A Retrospect) 358
On the Slain Collegians 358
America 361
Commemorative of a Naval Victory 363
SUPPLEMENT 364
Contents . xiii
PART SIX. FROM CLAREL: A POEM AND PILGRIMAGE
IN THE HOLY LAND
Vine and Clarel. Book II, Canto 27 375
The Prodigal. Book IV, Canto 26 380
Epilogue. Book IV, Canto 35 389
PART SEVEN. PROSE & POEM: JOHN MARR, AND OTHERS
FROM JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
WITH SOME SEA-PIECES 393
John Marr 393
The Æolian Harp at the Surf Inn 399
The Tuft of Kelp 401
The Maldive Shark 401
The Berg 401
Pebbles, I–VII 403
FROM THE BURGUNDY CLUB 405
House of the Tragic Poet 405
The Marquis de Grandvin 410
To M. de Grandvin 415
At the Hostelry 415
RAMMON AND “THE ENVIABLE ISLES” 436
UNDER THE ROSE 441
PART EIGHT. BILLY BUDD
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE 449
VERSIONS OF BILLY: THE UR–BILLY BUDD 523
xiv . Contents
PART NINE. FROM TIMOLEON, ETC.
After the Pleasure Party 529
The Ravaged Villa 534
Magian Wine 534
The Garden of Metrodorus 534
In a Garret 535
Monody 535
Lone Founts 535
VERSIONS OF “ART” 537
Buddha 542
C———’s Lament 542
Shelley’s Vision 543
The Age of the Antonines 543
In a Bye-Canal 544
Milan Cathedral 545
The Parthenon 546
Off Cape Colonna 547
The Archipelago 548
Syra 549
The Great Pyramid 551
PART TEN. FROM WEEDS AND WILDINGS, CHIEFLY:
WITH A ROSE OR TWO
The Little Good Fellows 555
The Chipmunk 556
RIP VAN WINKLE’S LILAC 557
NINE ROSE POEMS 566
Contents . xv
The Ambuscade 566
Under the Ground 566
Amoroso 567
The New Rosicrucians 568
The Vial of Attar 568
Hearth-Roses 569
Rose Window 569
Rosary Beads, I–III 570
The Devotion of the Flowers to Their Lady 571
NOTES 573
BIBLIOGRAPHY 609
INDEX OF POETRY TITLES 615
INDEX OF POETRY FIRST LINES 619
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780375757129
ISBN-10: 0375757120
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Melville, Herman
Redaktion: Bryant, John
Hersteller: Random House Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: Herman Melville
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2002
Gewicht: 0,958 kg
Artikel-ID: 103849704
Über den Autor
Herman Melville (born Melvill;[a] August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his works were not widely appreciated at the time of his death, the centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival in which critics re-evaluated his work and his novels became recognized as world classics.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant. His formal education ended abruptly after the death of his father in 1832 left the family in financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet but jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book and its sequel, Omoo (1847) were travel-adventures based on his experiences there. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaw, a daughter of a prominent Boston family. His first book not based on his own experience, Mardi (1849), was not well received. His novels Redburn (1849) and White Jacket (1850) were given better reviews but did not provide financial security.
Moby-Dick (1851), although now considered one of the great American novels, was not well received by contemporary critics. His psychological novel, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) was also scorned by reviewers. From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, which was collected in 1856 as The Piazza Tales. In 1857, he traveled to England and then toured the Near East, and that same year published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863 to take a position as Customs Inspector. From that point, he focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In an emotionally jarring incident, in 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, left one volume unpublished, and returned to prose of the sea. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE V
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
HERMAN MELVILLE: A WRITER IN PROCESS
by John Bryant XVII
A NOTE ON THE TEXT LI
PART ONE. STARTING OUT
FRAGMENTS FROM A WRITING DESK, NO. 2 5
VERSIONS OF TYPEE: TYPEE, CHAPTER 14 14
PART TWO. THE ART OF TELLING THE TRUTH
LETTERS 29
From Letter to John Murray, 15 July 1846 29
To Evert A. Duyckinck, 3 March 1849 32
Contents
To Evert A. Duyckinck, 5 April 1849 33
From Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck, 13 December 1850 35
To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [16 April?] 1851 36
To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [1 June?] 1851 38
To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [17?] November 1851 42
To Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 8 January 1852 44
HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES 47
PART THREE. TALES AND SKETCHES
BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER 65
COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! 99
FROM THE ENCANTADAS: THE CHOLA WIDOW 121
THE TWO TEMPLES 134
THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND
THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS 147
THE BELL-TOWER 168
BENITO CERENO 182
THE ’GEES 258
I AND MY CHIMNEY 264
THE PIAZZA 291
PART FOUR. STATUES IN ROME AND POEMS BY
HERMAN MELVILLE
STATUES IN ROME 307
POEMS BY HERMAN MELVILLE 319
Madam Mirror 319
Fruit and Flower Painter 320
xii . Contents
The New Ancient of Days, or
The Man of the Cave of Engihoul 321
To ——. 323
VERSIONS OF “CAMOËNS”: BEFORE AND AFTER 325
Immolated 330
Pontoosuce 331
PART FIVE. FROM BATTLE-PIECES
The Portent 337
Misgivings 337
The Conflict of Convictions 338
The March into Virginia 341
Dupont’s Round Fight 342
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight 343
Shiloh 344
Malvern Hill 344
The House-top 346
The Armies of the Wilderness 347
The Swamp Angel 354
The College Colonel 356
“The Coming Storm” 357
“Formerly a Slave” 357
The Apparition (A Retrospect) 358
On the Slain Collegians 358
America 361
Commemorative of a Naval Victory 363
SUPPLEMENT 364
Contents . xiii
PART SIX. FROM CLAREL: A POEM AND PILGRIMAGE
IN THE HOLY LAND
Vine and Clarel. Book II, Canto 27 375
The Prodigal. Book IV, Canto 26 380
Epilogue. Book IV, Canto 35 389
PART SEVEN. PROSE & POEM: JOHN MARR, AND OTHERS
FROM JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
WITH SOME SEA-PIECES 393
John Marr 393
The Æolian Harp at the Surf Inn 399
The Tuft of Kelp 401
The Maldive Shark 401
The Berg 401
Pebbles, I–VII 403
FROM THE BURGUNDY CLUB 405
House of the Tragic Poet 405
The Marquis de Grandvin 410
To M. de Grandvin 415
At the Hostelry 415
RAMMON AND “THE ENVIABLE ISLES” 436
UNDER THE ROSE 441
PART EIGHT. BILLY BUDD
BILLY BUDD, SAILOR: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE 449
VERSIONS OF BILLY: THE UR–BILLY BUDD 523
xiv . Contents
PART NINE. FROM TIMOLEON, ETC.
After the Pleasure Party 529
The Ravaged Villa 534
Magian Wine 534
The Garden of Metrodorus 534
In a Garret 535
Monody 535
Lone Founts 535
VERSIONS OF “ART” 537
Buddha 542
C———’s Lament 542
Shelley’s Vision 543
The Age of the Antonines 543
In a Bye-Canal 544
Milan Cathedral 545
The Parthenon 546
Off Cape Colonna 547
The Archipelago 548
Syra 549
The Great Pyramid 551
PART TEN. FROM WEEDS AND WILDINGS, CHIEFLY:
WITH A ROSE OR TWO
The Little Good Fellows 555
The Chipmunk 556
RIP VAN WINKLE’S LILAC 557
NINE ROSE POEMS 566
Contents . xv
The Ambuscade 566
Under the Ground 566
Amoroso 567
The New Rosicrucians 568
The Vial of Attar 568
Hearth-Roses 569
Rose Window 569
Rosary Beads, I–III 570
The Devotion of the Flowers to Their Lady 571
NOTES 573
BIBLIOGRAPHY 609
INDEX OF POETRY TITLES 615
INDEX OF POETRY FIRST LINES 619
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780375757129
ISBN-10: 0375757120
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Melville, Herman
Redaktion: Bryant, John
Hersteller: Random House Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: Herman Melville
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2002
Gewicht: 0,958 kg
Artikel-ID: 103849704
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