Herman Melville: A Writer in Process / John Bryant

Pt. 1. Starting Out. Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 2. Versions of Typee: Typee, Chapter 14

Pt. 2. The Art of Telling the Truth. Letters. From Letter to John Murray, 15 July 1846. To Evert A. Duyckinck, 3 March 1849. To Evert A. Duyckinck, 5 April 1849. From Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck, 13 December 1850. To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [16 April?] 1851. To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [1 June?] 1851. To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [17?] November 1851. To Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, 8 January 1852. Hawthorne and His Mosses

Pt. 3. Tales and Sketches. Bartleby, the Scrivener. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! From The Encantadas: The Chola Widow. The Two Temples. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids. The Bell-Tower. Benito Cereno. The 'Gees. I and My Chimney. The Piazza

Pt. 4. Statues in Rome and Poems by Herman Melville. Statues in Rome. Poems by Herman Melville. Madam Mirror. Fruit and Flower Painter. The New Ancient of Days, or The Man of the Cave of Engihoul. To -. Versions of "Camoens": Before and After. Immolated. Pontoosuce

Pt. 5. From Battle-Pieces. The Portent. Misgivings. The Conflict of Convictions. The March into Virginia. Dupont's Round Fight. A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight. Shiloh. Malvern Hill. The House-top. The Armies of the Wilderness. The Swamp Angel. The College Colonel. "The Coming Storm" "Formerly a Slave" The Apparition (A Retrospect). On the Slain Collegians. America. Commemorative of a Naval Victory. Supplement

Pt. 6. From Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. Vine and Clarel. Book II, Canto 27. The Prodigal. Book IV, Canto 26. Epilogue: Book IV, Canto 35

Pt. 7. Prose & Poem: John Marr, and Others. From John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea-Pieces. John Marr. The Aeolian Harp at the Surf Inn. The Tuft of Kelp. The Maldive Shark. The Berg. Pebbles, I-VII. From The Burgundy Club. House of the Tragic Poet. The Marquis de Grandvin. To M. de Grandvin. At the Hostelry. Rammon and "The Enviable Isles" Under the Rose

Pt. 8. Billy Budd. Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative. Versions of Billy: The Ur-Billy Budd

Pt. 9. From Timoleon, Etc. After the Pleasure Party. The Ravaged Villa. Magian Wine. The Garden of Metrodorus. In a Garret. Monody. Lone Founts. Versions of "Art" Buddha. C -'s Lament. Shelley's Vision. The Age of the Antonines. In a Bye-Canal. Milan Cahtedral. The Parthenon. Off Cape Colonna. The Archipelago. Syra. The Great Pyramid

Pt. 10. From Weeds and Wildings, Chiefly: With a Rose or Two. The Little Good Fellows. The Chipmunk. Rip Van Winkle's Lilac. Nine Rose Poems. The Ambuscade. Under the Ground. Amoroso. The New Rosicrucians. The Vial of Attar. Hearth-Roses. Rose Window. Rosary Beads, I-III. The Devotion of the Flowers to Their Lady.