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Scott wrote: "Book added:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Is that cover file your own scan?"
No, it is the image from the publisher's website
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: n/a
Publisher: Black Letter Press
Format: Hardcover
Date published: 2020
Pages: 120
Language: English
Description (publisher's website): Timoleon & Other Ventures in Minor Verse is a collection of poems by Herman Melville, privately published by the Caxton Press in 1891 in an edition of only twenty-five copies. They were composed immediately after Melville's travels in Europe and the Middle East (1856), and in part thirty years later when he resigned his post as a customs inspector (1885).
These poems belong to that period of Melville's life when he had attained technical maturity as a poet. The title is taken from Plutarch's Life of Timoleon, and the work is clearly indebted to Shakespeare for the figure of Brutus; the collection as a whole dwells on solitude, and is infused with a profound sense of pessimism.
Book cover image: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ckphq6...
Book on publisher's website: https://www.blackletter-press.com/pro...