CR Episode 71: Accepting Complexity in Melville’s Poetry

Herman Melville, by Joseph Oriel Eaton
Herman Melville, by Joseph Oriel Eaton

Download Link: Released 2021.03.22

The panel analyses contradiction in Melville’s earliest and latest published poems: three selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War–his first collection–and “Art” from Timoleon and Other Ventures, published only four months before his death.