Herman Melville: Moby-Dick and the American epic

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

In this collection

• Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or the Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano
• The Enviable Isles (Sea Pieces)
• The Enthusiast (Poems from Timoleon)
• Lone Founts (Poems from Timoleon)
• Marlena (Poems from Mardi)
• The Good Craft "Snow Bird" (Sea Pieces)
• We Fish (Poems from Mardi)
• A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• The Victor of Antietam. (1862.)
• The Released Rebel Prisoner. 1865 (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Moby Dick
• The Mound by the Lake (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Lyon. Battle of Springfield, Missouri. (August, 1861.)
• To Ned (Sea Pieces)
• Jack Roy (John Marr and other Sailors)
• The 'Gees
• Inscription (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• The Piazza
• Gettysburg. the Check. (July, 1863.)
• Malvern Hill. (July, 1862.)
• The Swamp Angel (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Ball's Bluff (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• To the Master of the. "Meteor" (Sea Pieces)
• Chattanooga. (November, 1863.)
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