Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Alma MacDougall Reising, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker

499 pages first pub 1876 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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Melville’s long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville’s advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 canto...

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