Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

  • Apple
  • Android
  • Windows Phone
  • Android

To get the free app, enter your email address or mobile phone number.
Download to your computer
Kindle Cloud Reader

The Poems of Herman Melville Rev ed. Edition

by
Herman Melville (Author)
› Visit Amazon's Herman Melville Page
Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
See search results for this author
Are you an author? Learn about Author Central
Herman Melville (Author), Douglas Robillard (Editor)
4.7 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0873386609
ISBN-10: 0873386604
Why is ISBN important?
ISBN
This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work.
Scan an ISBN with your phone
Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices.
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest <Embed>
Buy used On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
$7.62 On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
Buy new On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
$29.00 On clicking this link, a new layer will be open
More Buying Choices
11 New from $29.00 18 Used from $7.62
29 used & new from $7.62
See All Buying Options
Free Two-Day Shipping for College Students with Amazon Student Free%20Two-Day%20Shipping%20for%20College%20Students%20with%20Amazon%20Student

Glory Over Everything
April's Book with Buzz
"Glory Over Everything" by Kathleen Grissom. Heartbroken and with nothing to lose, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation where Pan is being held with a former Tall Oakes slave named Sukey. Though they have help from those in the Underground Railroad, not all of them will make it out alive. See more
$29.00 FREE Shipping. Only 4 left in stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Frequently Bought Together

  • The Poems of Herman Melville
  • +
  • Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America)
  • +
  • Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
Total price: $93.09
Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America)
    Herman Melville
    4.8 out of 5 stars 16
    Hardcover
    $31.45 Prime
  2. Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891)
    Hershel Parker
    3.7 out of 5 stars 7
    Hardcover
  3. Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics)
    Herman Melville
    3.9 out of 5 stars 22
    Paperback
    $10.00 Prime
  4. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics)
    Herman Melville
    4.2 out of 5 stars 56
    Paperback
    $9.37 Prime
  5. Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
    Herman Melville
    4.4 out of 5 stars 16
    Hardcover
    $32.64 Prime
  6. Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)
    Herman Melville
    4.9 out of 5 stars 14
    Paperback
    $12.17 Prime
Next
NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Kent State University Press; Rev ed. edition (December 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0873386604
  • ISBN-13: 978-0873386609
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,231,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customer Reviews

5 star
67%
4 star
33%
3 star
0%
2 star
0%
1 star
0%
See all 3 customer reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers
Write a customer review

Top Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsIs Melville's poetry really worth reading?
By J. Ross on October 22, 2005
Format: Paperback
If the difficulty of getting hold of it is any indication, then most people think Melville's poetry *isn't* worth it. I've been waiting for years for the poetry volume of the Northwestern-Newberry edition to appear (it was promised for 2002, but still shows no signs of coming out). That will be the ultimate answer, as it'll include all the materials, commentaries, etc. that one could desire.

In the meantime, it makes a lot of sense to collect Melville's own three published volumes of verse in this beautifully compact book. This may not represent his poetic legacy as a whole, but it shows (at any rate) his public face as a poet.

And a very odd poet he is indeed. He has a lot in common with Thomas Hardy, I think: both are addicted to convoluted diction, impossibly complex and confining stanza forms and metrical schemes, a general sense of labouring over every line and of lack of music and ease.

Hardy is, nevertheless, a great poet. When the occasion demands it -- "The Convergence of the Twain" about the Titanic disaster, the superb poems of 1912 about his dead wife -- there's a kind of clumsy power about him which overpowers any reservations.

Melville's technical shortcomings are -- if anything -- even greater. The chains of rhyme and metre chafe him more than virtually any other nineteenth-century poet I can think of. He seems to have almost no natural facility for verse.

And yet (as all readers of his prose are aware) he is a genius. His prose-poetry in Moby-Dick, "Benito Cereno" and "Las Encantadas" is incomparable. And very now and then it glimmers out in the midst of the most clotted poems.Read more ›
1 Comment 20 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsA poet in prose and not in poetry
By Shalom Freedman HALL OF FAME on May 16, 2005
Format: Paperback
Consider Melville's prose in 'Moby Dick'. Its complexity and vast metaphorical reach, its narrative reflectiveness and great exploring quality. Melville in his prose is the master of the long line reaching out to encompass and define greater and greater worlds.

Melville of the poetry has his own poetry chopped up into small lines. And somehow the music is lost, the diction seems more archaic and trite, and the great sweep of the story is lost.

The mode of Melville's genius is prose, and his poetry is read today primarily as supplement to further understanding it.
Comment 8 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Collection
By RebekahRenee on December 10, 2012
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
Probably the most comprehensive collection of Melville's poetry...unless you are looking for "Clarel" in its entirety, which I doubt. Melville's poetry is deserving of greater attention and this collection is a testament to that.
Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

The Poems of Herman Melville
Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more
This item: The Poems of Herman Melville
Set up a giveaway

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.