Melville's Antithetical Muse

This study analyses Melville''s poetics of opposition and focuses on local, thematic, rhetorical and technical aspects of the author''s poems. Melville''s tense relationship with his country rehearsed in his novels is condensed in the poetry analysed here. As a poet, Melville is, incredible as it may seem, a voice crying out in the wilderness, with the extensive tradition of the Western classics a...