Herman Melville

The great white whale, Bartleby, Billy Budd — Melville’s vast, strange, philosophical fiction, neglected in his lifetime and now central to the canon.

Moby-Dick and the American epic

In this collection

• The Haglets (Sea Pieces)
• Epilogue
• Aurora-Borealis. Commemorative of the Dissolution of Armies at the Peace. (May, 1865.)
• The Good Craft "Snow Bird" (Sea Pieces)
• The Fortitude of the North (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• The Aeolian Harp. "at the Surf Inn" (Sea Pieces)
• The Muster: Suggested by the Two Days' Review at Washington (May, 1865.)
• On the Photograph of a Corps Commander (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Gettysburg. the Check. (July, 1863.)
• The Cumberland. (March, 1862.)
• The Piazza
• Herba Santa (Poems from Timoleon)
• Omoo
• The Battle for the Mississipppi. (April, 1862.)
• Misgivings. (1860.)
• Stonewall Jackson (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Art (Poems from Timoleon)
• The Maldive Shark (Sea Pieces)
• On the Grave of a Young Cavalry Officer Killed in the Valley Of
• Dirge (Poems from Clarel)
• Jimmy Rose
• The Battle for the Bay. (August, 1864.)
• Crossing the Tropics (Sea Pieces)
• Moby Dick
• The Conflict of Convictions. (1860-1.)
• Lee in the Capitol. (April, 1866.)
• The Stone Fleet (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Aurora Borealis (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Inscription (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Lines Traced under an Image of Amor Threatening (Poems from Timoleon)

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