Selected poems / edited by F.O. Matthiessen.

Author/creator Melville, Herman
Other author Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950.
Other author Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 former owner.
Format Book
Publication InfoNorfolk, Conn. : New Directions, [1944]
Description30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
SeriesPoets of the year
Poets of the year. ^A249390
Contents From Battle-pieces: The portent (1859) ; Misgivings (1860) ; Shiloh: a requiem (April 1862) ; The house-top: a night piece (July 1863) ; Sheridan at Cedar Creek (October 1864) ; In the prison pen (1864) ; The college colonel ; A dirge for McPherson: killed in front of Atlanta (July 1864) ; On the slain collegians ; Commemorative of a naval victory -- from John Marr and other sailors: Old counsel of the young master of a wrecked California clipper ; The tuft of kelp ; The Maldive shark ; To Ned ; The berg: a dream ; Pebbles -- from Timoleon: The ravaged villa ; Shelley's vision ; Monody ; Fragments of a lost gnostic poem of the 12th century ; Art ; The Attic landscape ; Greek architecture -- from Clarel: Of Rome ; On Mammon ; Ungar and Rolfe ; Epilogue -- from Melville's manuscripts: Immolated ; Gold in the mountain ; Time's long ago ; The lake: Pontoosuc.
Local noteSewn chapbook. Includes dust jacket. Laid in: typescripts of poems: "The march into Virginia (ending in the First Manassas)" & "From John Marr and other sailors: Jack Roy" and "Crossing the tropics," by Herman Melville (undated). Stuart Wright Book Collection #3.16. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
LCCNa 45001571

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