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Poem of the Day: ‘The Maldive Shark’

Herman Melville’s method here seems far more akin to Marianne Moore’s 20th-century process than to anything produced in the 19th century by a Longfellow or a Whittier, or even a Whitman.

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Portrait of Herman Melville by Joseph Oriel Eaton, 1870. Via Wikimedia Commons