A review by bartlebybleaney
John Marr and Other Poems (Dodo Press) by Herman Melville

3.0

I didn't care much for the longer pieces, the dialect infused into the poems, or the loose meter in a lot of it. However, I really enjoyed the short lyrical poems; I'd have read more of that sort. It's obvious Melville is quite capable of metrical proficiency, so it's curious that he did so poorly (to my ear) in a lot of places. Worth the read all the same.