Willard Thorp's Herman Melville: Representative Selections

A treasure-trove of Melville's writings and Melville scholarship, valuable as ever eighty years on, and now more accessible than ever since getting Google-digitized. First published by the American Book Company in 1938, Willard Thorp's Melville offers a generous selection of poetry as well as prose, including the first publication of Melville's 1859 poem To Daniel Shepherd.

At least one copy (from University of California) is available online courtesy of

• HathiTrust Digital Library
  https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4380152

and another from Digital Library of India via

• The Internet Archive
  https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.182829/2015.182829.Herman-Melville-Representative-Selectionswith-Introduction