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Critical neglect of Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) constitutes the most perennial of tropes in discussions of Melville’s longest poem, even and especially as the poem gains more attention. By this point, we might draw back from describing Clarel as being neglected at all. It is available in two exemplary modern critical editions, Walter Bezanson’s 1960 Hendricks House edition and the 1991 Northwestern University Press/Newberry Library edition, which among its wealth of supporting material incorporates much of Bezanson’s scholarship. For use in the classroom, there is also an affordable Northwestern Newberry reader’s edition. Clarel has been a primary point of focus for no fewer than seven book-length studies: Joseph G. Knapp’s Tortured Synthesis (1971), Vincent Kenny’s Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Spiritual Autobiography (1974), Larry Edward Wegener’s A Concordance to Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1979), Stan Goldman’s Melville’s Protest Theism: The Hidden and Silent God in Clarel (1993), Laura López Peña’s Beyond the Walls: Being with Each Other in Herman Melville’s Clarel (2015), and William Potter’s Melville’s Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds (2004) are devoted to Clarel in their entirety, and Hilton Obenzinger’s American Palestine: Melville, Mark Twain, and the Holy Land Mania (1999) devotes roughly half of its 300-plus pages to the poem. Additionally, the MLA International Bibliography lists 158 hits in response to an open search for Clarel, including books that devote substantial, and sometimes multiple, chapters to the poem; journal articles; and book chapters in edited volumes. Scholars who appear on this list (in addition to those above) include Nina Baym, Dennis Berthold, Jonathan A. Cook, Shirley Dettlaff, Edgar Dryden, James Duban, Jonathan Gellman, Bruce A. Harvey, Michael Jonik, Wyn Kelley, Amy Kaplan, Alfred Kazin, Martin Kevorkian, Timothy Marr, Cody Marrs, Robert Milder, Peter Norberg, Samuel Otter, Ilana Pardes, Hershel Parker, Gordon Poole, Basem Ra’ad, Peter Riley, Malini Johar Schueller, Bryan C. Short, William Shurr, Martyn Smith, William Spengemann, Robert K. Wallace, Tim Wood, Brian Yothers, and Thomas Zlatic, among others. Two recent edited collections, Branka Arsić’s and K. L. Evans’s Melville’s Philosophies (2017) and Jonathan A. Cook’s and Brian Yothers’s Visionary of the Word: Melville and Religion (2017), each devote multiple chapters to Melville’s Holy...