Herman Melville: The Complete Collection

Herman Melville

• Editore: Pandora's Box Classics
• Anno: 2019
• ISBN:
  9789897781742
• Argomento: Literature
• Categoria: Literary Collections

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857.

Herman Melville

Clarel:

A Poem and Pilgrimage
in the Holy Land.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Son
1876.

By
a spontaneous act,
not very long ago,
my kinsman, the late
PETER GANESEVOORT,
of albany, n. y.,
in a personal interview provided for the publication
of this poem, known to him by report,
as existing in manuscript.
justly and affectionately the printed book is
inscribed in his name.

clarel

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Clarel Part 1: Jerusalem:

Canto 1. The Hostel.

Canto 2. Abdon.

Canto 3. The Sepuechre.

Canto 4. Of the Crusaders.

Canto 5. Clarel.

Canto 6. Tribes and Sects.

Canto 7. Beyond the Walls.

Canto 8. The Votary.

Canto 9. Saint and Student.

Canto 10. Rambles.

Canto 11. Lower Gihon.

Canto 12. Celio.

Canto 13. The Arch.

Canto 14. In the Glen.

Canto 15. Under the Minaret.

Canto 16. The Wall of Wail.

Canto 17. Nathan.

Canto 18. Night.

Canto 19. The Fulfilment.

Canto 20. Vale of Ashes.

Canto 21. By-Places.

Canto 22. Hermitage.

Canto 23. The Close.

Canto 24. The Gibe.

Canto 25. Huts.

Canto 26. The Gate of Zion.

Canto 27. Matron and Maid.

Canto 28. Tomb and Fountain.

Canto 29. The Recluse.

Canto 30. The Site of the Passion.

Canto 31. Rolfe.

Canto 32. Of Rama.

Canto 33. By the Stone.

Canto 34. They Tarry.

Canto 35. Arculf and Adamnan.

Canto 36. The Tower.

Canto 37. A Sketch.

Canto 38. The Sparrow.

Canto 39. Clarel and Ruth.

Canto 40. The Mounds.

Canto 41. On the Wall.

Canto 42. Tidings.

Canto 43. A Procession.

Canto 44. The Start.

Clarel Part 2: The Wilderness:

Canto 1: The Cavalcade

Canto 2: The Skull Cap

Canto 3: By the Garden

Canto 4: Of Mortmain

Canto 5. Clarel and Glaucon.

Canto 6. The Hamlet.

Canto 7. Guide and Guard.

Canto 8. Roefe and Derwent.

Canto 9. Through Adommin.

Canto 10. A Halt.

Canto 11. Of Deserts.

Canto 12. The Banker.

Canto 13 . Flight of the Greeks.

Canto 14. By Achor.

Canto 15 . The Fountain.

Canto 16. Night in Jericho.

Canto 17. In Mid-Watch.

Canto 18. The Syrian Monk.

Canto 19. An Apostate.

Canto 20. Under the Mountain.

Canto 21. The Priest and Rolfe.

Canto 22. Concerning Hebrews.

Canto 23. By the Jordan.

Canto 24. The River-Rite.

Canto 25. The Dominican.

Canto 26. Of Rome.

Canto 27. Vine and Clarel.

Canto 28. The Fog.

Canto 29. By the Marge.

Canto 30. Of Petra.

Canto 31. The Inscription.

Canto 32. The Encampment.

Canto 33. Lot’s Sea.

Canto 34. Mortmain Reappears.

Canto 35. Prelusive.

Canto 36. Sodom.

Canto 37. Of Traditions.

Canto 38. The Sleepwalker.

Canto 39. Obsequies.

Clarel Part 3: Mar Saba:

Canto 1. In the Mountain.

Canto 2. The Carpenter.

Canto 3. Of the Many Mansions.

Canto 4. The Cypriote.

Canto 5. The High Desert.

Canto 6. Derwent.

Canto 7. Bell and Cairn.

Canto 8. Tents of Kedar.

Canto 9. Of Monasteries.

Canto 1O. Before the Gate.

Canto 11. The Beaker.

Canto 12. The Timoneer’s Story.

Canto 13. Song and Recitative.

Canto 14. The Revel Closed.

Canto 15. In Moonlight.

Canto 16. The Easter Fire.

Canto 17. A Chant.

Canto 18. The Minster.

Canto 19. The Masque.

Canto 20. Afterward.

Canto 21. In Confidence.

Canto 22. The Medallion.

Canto 23. Derwent with the Abbot.

Canto 24. Vault and Grotto.

Canto 25. Derwent and the Lesbian.

Canto 26. Vine and the Palm.

Canto 27. Man and Bird.

Canto 28. Mortmain and the Palm.

Canto 29. Rolfe and the Palm.

Canto 30. The Celibate.

Canto 31. The Recoil.

Canto 32. Empty Stirrups.

Clarel Part 4: Bethlehem:

Canto 1. In Saddle.

Canto 2. The Ensign.

Canto 3. The Island.

Canto 4. An Intruder.

Canto 5. Of the Stranger.

Canto 6. Bethlehem.

Canto 7. At Table.

Canto 8. The Pillow.

Canto 9. The Shepherds Dale.

Canto 10. A Monument.

Canto 11. Disquiet.

Canto 12. Of Pope and Turk.

Canto 13. The Church of the Star.

Canto 14. Soldier and Monk.

Canto 15. Symphonies.

Canto 16. The Convent Roof.

Canto 17. A Transition.

Canto 18. The Hill-Side.

Canto 19. A New-Comer.

Canto 20. Derwent and Ungar.

Canto 21. Ungar and Rolfe.

Canto 22. Of Wickedness the Word.

Canto 23. Derwent and Rolfe.

Canto 24. Twilight.

Canto 25. The Invitation.

Canto 26. The Prodigal.

Canto 27. By Parapet.

Canto 28. David’s Well.

Canto 29. The Night Ride.

Canto 30. The Valley of Decision.

Canto 31. Dirge.

Canto 32. Passion Week.

Canto 33. Easter.

Canto 34. Via Crucis.

Canto 35. Epilogue.

Clarel Part 1:

Jerusalem.

Canto 1.

The Hostel.

IN CHAMBER low and scored by time,

Masonry old, late washed with lime—

Much like a tomb new-cut in stone;

Elbow on knee, and brow sustained

All motionless on sidelong hand,

A student sits, and broods alone.

The small deep casement sheds a ray

Which tells that in the Holy Town

It is the passing of the day—

The Vigil of Epiphany.

Beside him in the narrow cell

His luggage lies unpacked; thereon

The dust lies, and on him as well—

The dust of travel. But anon

His face he lifts—in feature fine,

Yet pale, and all but feminine

But for the eye and serious brow—

Then...