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Timoleon & Other Poems
Timoleon, Etc. was the last work by Herman Melville published during his life. It was printed by the Caxton Press in May 1891, in an edition of 25 copies.
Timoleon, Etc. includes the following 42
Timoleon
After the Pleasure Party
The Night March
The Ravaged Villa
The Margrave’s Birthnight
Magian Wine
The Garden of Metrodorus
The New Zealot to the Sun
The Weaver
Lamia’s Song
In a Garret
Monody
Lone Founts
The Bench of Boors
The Enthusiast
Art
Buddha
C_____’s Lament
Shelley’s Vision
Fragments of A Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
The Marchioness of Brinvilliers
The Age of The Antonines
Herba Santa
FRUIT OF TRAVEL LONG AGO [section]
Venice
In a Bye Canal
Pisa’s Leaning Tower
In a Church of Padua
Milan Cathedral
Pausilippo
The Attic Landscape
The Same
The Parthenon
Greek Masonry
Greek Architecture
Off Cape Colonna
The Archipelago
Syra
Disinterment of the Hermes
The Apparition
In the Desert
The Great Pyramid
L‘ ENVOI [section]
The Return of the Sire de Nesle
Timoleon, Etc. includes the following 42
Timoleon
After the Pleasure Party
The Night March
The Ravaged Villa
The Margrave’s Birthnight
Magian Wine
The Garden of Metrodorus
The New Zealot to the Sun
The Weaver
Lamia’s Song
In a Garret
Monody
Lone Founts
The Bench of Boors
The Enthusiast
Art
Buddha
C_____’s Lament
Shelley’s Vision
Fragments of A Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
The Marchioness of Brinvilliers
The Age of The Antonines
Herba Santa
FRUIT OF TRAVEL LONG AGO [section]
Venice
In a Bye Canal
Pisa’s Leaning Tower
In a Church of Padua
Milan Cathedral
Pausilippo
The Attic Landscape
The Same
The Parthenon
Greek Masonry
Greek Architecture
Off Cape Colonna
The Archipelago
Syra
Disinterment of the Hermes
The Apparition
In the Desert
The Great Pyramid
L‘ ENVOI [section]
The Return of the Sire de Nesle
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First published January 1, 1966
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Herman Melville
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and its sequel, Omoo (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. Mardi (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family.
Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector.
From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and its sequel, Omoo (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. Mardi (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family.
Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector.
From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.
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