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Wrestling with the angel: Battle-Pieces as a crucible for American romantic values.

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-02
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
I wish to respond to the question "Why is Melville a good poet?" not from the point of view of a Melville specialist but from that of an American literature generalist. Scholars who think in terms of "continuities" have a difficult time in explaining the fallow period of American poetry that followed the Civil War. Whitman and Dickinson had penned most of the consequential poems in their respective canons...

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