Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

by Herman Melville and Melville Herman

Book Overview

Melville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions.

But modern critics have found Clarel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125404
• ISBN13: 9780810125407
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 499 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.3"