{"product_id":"clarel-a-poem-and-pilgrimage-in-the-holy-land-9780810125407","title":"Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Herman Melville | Hershel Parker | Harrison Hayford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelville's long poem \u003ci\u003eClarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land\u003c\/i\u003e (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 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But modern critics have found \u003ci\u003eClarel\u003c\/i\u003e a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land. \u003c\/i\u003eIt abounds with revelations of Melville's inner life. Most strikingly, it is argued that the character Vine is a portrait of Melville's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. \u003ci\u003eClarel \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most complex theological explorations of faith and doubt in all of American literature, and this edition brings Melville's poem to new life.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47586540585111,"sku":"9780810125407","price":2399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780810125407.webp?v=1774964437","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/clarel-a-poem-and-pilgrimage-in-the-holy-land-9780810125407","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}