Herman Melville

Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Jan 14, 2008

In his recently released book, Melville: The Making of the Poet, Hershel Parker, the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, corrects earlier critics’ misconceptions regarding Melville and the art of poetry. Hershel demonstrates how intense was Melville’s relationship with poetry from childhood on and into old age.

For a review of Hershel’s book, please see Robert Faggen’s “The great American author didn't write poetry by accident, Parker argues, but entirely by plan.”

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