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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , 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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