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A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville’s Visions
- Leviathan
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 18, Number 3, October 2016
- pp. 68-111
- 10.1353/lvn.2016.0042
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This essay reflects on Melville’s last book of poems, Timoleon, in light of the work of Elihu Vedder, the artist to whom it is dedicated. Focusing on Vedder’s drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the essay looks at how the pictures give shape and meaning to Melville’s poetry and to a philosophy of art that appears most expressively in the pessimism and enchantments of his late, visionary poems.
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