Criticism: Melville's Poetry

• Abel, Darrell, "'Laurel Twined with Thorn': The Theme of Melville's Timoleon." In Personalist, 41 (1960), pp. 330-40.
• Arvin, Newton, "Melville's Shorter Poems." In Partisan Review, 16 (1949), pp. 1034-46.
• Barrett, Laurence, "The Differences in Melville's Poetry." In Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 70 (September 1955), pp. 606-23.
• Barrett, Laurence, "Fiery Hunt: A Study of Melville's Theories of the Artist." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1949.
• Benet, William Rose, "Poet in Prose." In Saturday Review of Literature, 30 (August 2, 1947), p. 17.
• Berlind, Bruce, "Notes on Melville's Shorter Poems." In Hopkins Review, 3 (1950), pp. 24-35.
• Bezanson, Walter E., "Melville's Reading of Arnold's Poetry." In Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 69 (1954), pp. 365-91.
• Bridgeman, Richard, "Melville's Roses." In Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 8 (1966), pp. 235-44.
• Cambon, Glauco, The Inclusive Flame: Studies in Modern American Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963.
• Cannon, Agnes D., "Melville's Concept of the Poet and Poetry." Ph. D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1967.
• Cody, David, "'So, then, Solidity's a crust': Melville's 'The Apparition' and the Explosion of the Petersburg Mine." In Melville Society Extracts, no. 70 (September 1989), I, pp. 4-8.
• Cohen, Hennig, "Melville's Copy of Broughton's Popular Poetry of the Hindoos." In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 61, pp. 266-67.
• Connor, Marian, "The Abysm and the Star: A Study of the Poetry of Herman Melville." Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 1977.
• Day, Frank L. "Herman Melville's Use of the Rebellion Record in His Poetry." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, 1959.
• Day, Frank L., "Melville and Sherman March to the Sea." In American Notes and Queries, 2 (1964), pp. 134-36.
• Dillingham, William B., "'Neither Believer Nor Infidel': Themes of Melville's Poetry." In Personalist, 46 (1965), pp. 501-16.
• Donahue, Jane, "Melville's Classicism: Law and Order in his Poetry." In Papers on Language and Literature, 5 (1969), pp. 63-72.
• Donoghue, Denis, Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
• Fogle, Richard Harter, "Melville and the Civil War." In Tulane Studies in English, 9 (1959), pp. 61-89.
• Fogle, Richard Harter, "Melville's Poetry." In Tulane Studies in English, 12 (1962), pp. 81-86.
• Fogle, Richard Harter, "The Themes of Melville's Later Poetry." In Tulane Studies in English, 11 (1961), pp. 65-86.
• Freibert, Sister Lucy Marie, "Meditative Voice in the Poetry of Herman Melville." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1970.
• Garner, Stanton, "Herman Melville and the Trunkmaker." In Notes and Queries, n.s. 26 (August 1979), pp. 307-8.
• Garner, Stanton, "Melville's 'Scout Toward Aldie.'" Parts 1, 2. Melville Society Extracts, nos. 51, 52 (September, November 1982), pp. 5-16, 1-14.
• Goforth, David S., "Melville's Shorter Poems: The Substance and the Significance." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1967.
• Hand, Harry E., "'And War Be Done': Battle-Pieces and Other Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville." In Journal of Human Relations, 11 (1963), pp. 326-40.
• Hayford, Harrison, Melville's "Monody": Really for Hawthorne?. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1990.
• Hibler, David J., "Drum-Taps and Battle- Pieces: Melville and Whitman on the Civil War." In Personalist, 50 (1969), pp. 130-47.
• Hitt, Ralph E., "Melville's Poems of Civil War Controversy." In Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2 (1969), pp. 57-68.
• Kramer, Aaron, The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1968.
• Lindeman, Jack, "Herman Melville's Civil War." In Modern Age, 9 (1965), pp. 387-98.
• Lindeman, Jack, "Herman Melville's Reconstruction." In Modern Age, 10 (1966), pp. 168-72.
• Madison, Robert D., "Melville's Sherman Poems: A Problem in Source Study." In Melville Society Extracts, no. 78 (September 1989), pp. 8-11.
• Martin, Lawrence H., Jr., "Melville and Christianity: The Late Poems." In Massachusetts Studies in English, 2 (1969), pp. 11-18.
• Meldrum, Barbara, "Melville on War." In Research Studies of the State College of Washington, 37 (1969), pp. 130-38.
• Milder, Robert, "The Rhetoric of Melville's Battle- Pieces." In Nineteenth-Century Literature, 44 (September 1989), pp. 173-200.
• Montague, Gene B., "Melville's Battle-Pieces." In University of Texas Studies in English, 35 (1956), pp. 106-15.
• Newton, Arvin, "Melville's Shorter Poems." In Partisan Review, vol. 16 (October 1949), pp. 1034-46.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., "Melville's Burgundy Club Sketches." In Harvard Library Bulletin, 12 (1958), pp. 253-67.
• Shaw, Richard O., "The Civil War Poems of Herman Melville." In Lincoln Herald (Harrogate, TN), 68 (1966), pp. 44-49.
• Shulman, Robert, "Melville's 'Timoleon': From Plutarch to the Early Stages of Billy Budd." In Comparative Literature, 19 (1967), pp. 351-61.
• Shurr, William H., "Melville's Poems: The Late Agenda." In A Companion to Melville Studies, pp. 351-74. Edited by John Bryant. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• Shurr, William H., The Mystery of Iniquity: Melville as Poet, 1857-1891. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1951.
• Spiller, Robert E., "Melville: Our First Tragic Poet." In Saturday Review of Literature, 33 (November 25, 1950), pp. 24-25.
• Stein, William Bysshe, "Melville's Poetry: Its Symbols of Individuation." In Literature and Psychology, 7 (1959), pp. 21-26.
• Stein, William Bysshe, "Melville's Poetry: Two Rising Notes." In Emerson Society Quarterly, 27 (1966), pp. 10-13.
• Stein, William Bysshe, "The Old Man and the Triple Goddess: Melville's 'The Haglets'." In Journal of English Literary History, 25 (1958), pp. 43-59.
• Stein, William Bysshe, The Poetry of Melville's Late Years: Time, History, Myth, and Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1970.
• Stewart, Rachel Whitesides, "The Conditional Mood of Melville's Poetry." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1975.
• Sutton, Walter, "Melville's 'Pleasure Party' and the Art of Concealment." In Philological Quarterly, 30 (1951), pp. 316-27.
• Tilton, Eleanor M., "Melville's 'Rammon': A Text and Commentary." In Harvard Library Bulletin 13 (Winter 1959), pp. 50-91.
• Vogel, Dan, "Melville's Shorter Published Poetry: A Critical Study of the Lyrics in Mardi, of Battle-Pieces, John Marr, and Timoleon." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1956.
• Warren, Robert Penn, "Melville's Poems." In Southern Review, 3 (1967), pp. 799-855.
• Warren, Robert Penn, "Melville the Poet." In The Kenyon Review 8 (Spring 1946), pp. 208-23.

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