Weeds and Wildings Chiefly
No CoverA collection of Herman Melville's late poetry and short fiction reflecting on marriage, memory, and nature through flowers and woodland themes.
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A collection of Herman Melville's late poetry and short fiction reflecting on marriage, memory, and nature through flowers and woodland themes.
Also included in Complete Poems are the two privately issued books John Marr (1888) and Timoleon (1891), which contain some of Melville's finest lyric verse. Rounding out the volume are the extraordinary poems from his two unfinished manuscripts, Weeds and Wildings and Parthenope, along with miscellaneous uncollected poems.
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Poems reference love-making and contrast barren virginity with sexual intimacy
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No profanity or strong language present
No substance use depicted
No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present
Fleeting devotional or spiritual undertones in reflective verse
No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonological content present
No political or ideological messaging present
No self-harm or suicide depicted
No abuse or systemic suffering depicted
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