Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by Herman Melville

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Herman Melville

540 pages first pub 1876 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, published in two volumes. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European cla...

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reflective 100%

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