<DIV><p>While best known for such novels as his monumental <B>Moby-Dick</B>, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville's poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from <B>Battle-Pieces</B> and <B>Aspects of the War</B>, along with Melville's own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of <B>Clarel: A Poem</B> and <B>Pilgrimage in the Holy Land</B>; selections from Melville's later books, <B>Timoleon</B>, <B>John Marr and Other Sailors</B>, and <B>Weeds and Wildings</B>, <B>Chiefly, with a Rose or Two</B>; as well as a number of his powerful and lesserknown uncollected poems. This volume will usher in a new appreciation for Melville's poetic gifts.</p> <ul> <li> <div>Includes a new introduction to Melville's life and later career as a poet during the Civil War and Gilded Age, as well as notes and suggestions for further reading</div> </li> </ul> </div>