In the first section of this work, the title character is disappointed at the condition of the city that he arrives to and he meets several unique characters including Nehemiah, who later hallucinates and drowns, and an optimistic Anglican priest named Derwent, with which the title character travels to Mount Quarantania.
In the first section of this work, the title character is disappointed at the condition of the city that he arrives to and he meets several unique characters including Nehemiah, who later hallucinates and drowns, and an optimistic Anglican priest named Derwent, with which the title character travels to Mount Quarantania. However, the most significant companion of the protagonist is Ruth, a young Jewish woman with whom the titular young American theology student falls in love. However, in the conclusion, the title character unfortunately returns from the (*) Middle East on Ash Wednesday to find her dead. Over eighteen thousand lines long and divided into four parts called "Jerusalem", "The Wilderness", "Mar Saba", and "Bethlehem", it ends with the line "Emerge thou mayst from the last whelming sea / And prove that death but routs life into victory". This is, for 10 points, what epic poem subtitled A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a late philosophical work by Herman Melville?
In the first section of this work, the title character is disappointed at the condition of the city that he arrives to and he meets several unique characters including Nehemiah, who later hallucinates and drowns, and an optimistic Anglican priest named Derwent, with which the title character travels to Mount Quarantania.
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