"the book is significant. Melville wrote a review of ""Mosses from an Old Manse"", published by Duyckinck, and in it he believed that these stories revealed a dark side to Hawthorne, ""shrouded in blackness, ten times black"". ""Moby-Dick"" was dedicated to Hawthorne: ""In token of my admiration for his genius, this book is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne."" Hawthorne, in turn, referenced Melville in his book ""A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys"": ""On the higher side of Pittsfield, sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his 'White Wale' while the gigantic shape of Graylock looms upon him from his"
"Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include ""Typee"" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last 30 years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and original,"
"and deserves to be much better known and more often performed."" Moby Dick (cantata) Moby Dick is a dramatic cantata for two tenors, two basses, male chorus, and orchestra by the American composer Bernard Herrmann with a libretto by Clark Harrington based on Herman Melville's eponymous novel. The work was composed between February 1937 and August 1938 while Herrmann was music director at CBS and it was premiered in 1940 at Carnegie Hall in New York City by the New York Philharmonic under the conductor John Barbirolli. The piece is dedicated to Herrmann's friend and fellow composer Charles Ives. Hermann"
"Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. <ref>Scott Standard Postage Catalog, Volume 1, Page 57, Scott #2094. Scott Publishing Company, Sidney Ohio, 2000./<ref> Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include ""Typee"" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last 30 years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the"
"Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ""Pequod"", for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work's genre classifications range from late Romantic to early Symbolist. ""Moby-Dick"" was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as"
"Moby Dick (cantata) Moby Dick is a dramatic cantata for two tenors, two basses, male chorus, and orchestra by the American composer Bernard Herrmann with a libretto by Clark Harrington based on Herman Melville's eponymous novel. The work was composed between February 1937 and August 1938 while Herrmann was music director at CBS and it was premiered in 1940 at Carnegie Hall in New York City by the New York Philharmonic under the conductor John Barbirolli. The piece is dedicated to Herrmann's friend and fellow composer Charles Ives. Hermann originally conceived ""Moby Dick"" as an opera, but found the novel"
"Melville's manic intensity exhausting at times."" Melville wrote ten letters to Hawthorne, ""all of them effusive, profound, deeply affectionate."" Melville was inspired and encouraged by his new relationship with Hawthorne during the period that he was writing ""Moby-Dick."" He dedicated this new novel to Hawthorne, though their friendship was to wane only a short time later. On October 18, 1851, ""The Whale"" was published in Britain in three volumes, and on November 14 ""Moby-Dick"" appeared in the United States as a single volume. In between these dates, on October 22, 1851, the Melvilles' second child, Stanwix, was born. On December"
"Melville wrote Moby-Dick in 1851, the similarities between the Melville character Tashtego and Smalley are notable. In fact, Smalley was invited to the opening of the movie ""Moby Dick."" Melville described Tashtego as follows: <poem> ""an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly promontory of Martha’s Vineyard, where there still exists the last remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers. In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers."" </poem> Later in his life, much interest surrounded Amos and his"
"as ""the greatest master of the sea, living or dead."" Herman Melville admired Russell's work, and dedicated his book ""John Marr and Other Sailors"" (1888) to him. Russell reciprocated, dedicating ""An Ocean Tragedy"" to Melville during 1890. Despite their mutual regard, neither writer influenced the other's style, and it is Melville's works that have proved the more enduring. Arthur Conan Doyle made Dr. Watson an admirer in The Five Orange Pips in which he was ""deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea stories"" while temporarily back in 221B Baker Street. Particularly during later years, when arthritis made it difficult"
"Sarah Morewood Sarah Morewood (1823 – 1863) was a poet and literary figure who developed a close relationship in the 1850s with her nearest neighbor in the Berkshires, the novelist Herman Melville. In 1983 Professor Michael Rogin of the University of California, Berkeley, was the first to suggest that Morewood was a model for the character of Isabel in Melville's dark novel of romance and ambition ""Pierre; or, The Ambiguities"" (1852). Thirty-three years later biographer Michael Shelden argued in ""Melville in Love"" (2016) that Morewood influenced Melville's work not only in ""Pierre"", but also in ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), and that for"
"for three years from 1931 when he found himself unemployed due to the Depression. It was Harzof who was responsible for Randall meeting Josiah K. Lilly, Jr., of the pharmaceutical Lilly family, when in 1932 Randall took a suitcase full of William D. Breaker's books to Lilly on behalf of Harzof. Lilly later donated his extensive collection to Indiana University to form the Lilly Library, on condition that Randall went along with it. When ""Moby-Dick"" author Herman Melville died in 1891, his widow sold the remains of his library to a book dealer in Brooklyn for $110 after a New"
"Queequeg Queequeg is a fictional character in the 1851 novel ""Moby-Dick"" by American author Herman Melville. The son of a South Sea chieftain who left home to explore the world, Queequeg is the first principal character encountered by the narrator, Ishmael. The quick friendship and relationship of equality between the tattooed cannibal and the white sailor shows Melville's basic theme of shipboard democracy and racial diversity. Once aboard the whaling ship ""Pequod"" Queequeg becomes the harpooner for the mate Starbuck. At the end of the novel he ""casts the runes"", which say he will die. He therefore builds a coffin"
"novel by Herman Melville, the 19th century novelist who wrote ""Moby-Dick"" and ""Billy Budd"". She also jokingly asks whether Kurt is related to Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, by saying: """"Oh my goodness what an unfortunate name. Hopefully no relation."""" Diane, a liberal, is taken aback by the conservative Kurt's enthusiasm for Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. As a joke, Kurt sends her a copy of Palin's 2009 memoir, """". She in turn sends him the parody book ""Going Rouge: A Candid Look Inside The Mind Of Political Conservative Sarah Palin"","
"curretly (2018) houses the Lansingburgh Historical Society. In 2010, a species of extinct giant sperm whale, ""Livyatan melvillei"", was named in honor of Melville. The paleontologists who discovered the fossil were fans of ""Moby-Dick"" and dedicated their discovery to the author. Melville Hall, the Commissioned Officer's Club at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, in Kings Point, New York is named in his honor. On August 1, 1984, as part of the Literary Arts Series, The United States Postal Service isued a 20 Cent commemorative stamp to honor Herman Melville. The setting for the first day of issue was the"
"Moby Dick (whale) Moby Dick is a fictional sperm whale who is the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. Melville based the fictional whale partially on a real albino whale of that period called Mocha Dick. Ishmael describes Moby Dick as having two prominent white areas around “a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump,” the rest of his body being of stripes and patches between white and gray. The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of ninety feet"
"two volume condensation of the ""Penny Cyclopaedia"" specifically regarding the British Empire, published 1850-51. The novelist Herman Melville is known to have used the ""Penny Cyclopædia"" while writing ""Moby-Dick"" and other novels, and scholar Paul McCarthy has suggested that the encyclopedia's coverage of moral insanity and monomania may have influenced Melville's characters in ""Moby-Dick"" and other writings. Vol. 1. A-And—Vol. 2. And-Ath—Vol. 3. Ath-Bas—Vol. 4. Bas-Blo—Vol. 5. Blo-Buf—Vol. 6. Buf-Cha—Vol. 7. Cha-Cop—Vol. 8. Cop-Dio—Vol. 9. Dio-Ern—Vol. 10. Ern-Fru—Vol. 11. Fue-Had—Vol. 12. Had-Int—Vol. 13. Int-Lim—Vol. 14. Lim-Mas—Vol. 15. Mas-Mur—Vol. 16. Murillo—Organ (1840)—Vol. 17. Org-Per—Vol. 18. Per-Pri—Vol. 19. Pri-Ric—Vol. 20. Ric-Sca—Vol. 21."
"Jean-Pierre Melville Jean-Pierre Melville (; born Jean-Pierre Grumbach; 20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973) was a French filmmaker. While with the French Resistance during World War II, he adopted the nom de guerre Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. Spiritual father of the French New Wave, he influenced the new generation of filmmakers in Asia (John Woo, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, etc) and in America (Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin). Jean-Pierre Grumbach was born in 1917 in Paris, France, the son"
"and Aspects of the War""(1866). Shortly after Sarah’s death, Caroline Whitmarsh paid tribute to her in the local press as a woman of great intelligence and sympathy, and she specifically mentioned her power to inspire “men of genius.” Melville was one of those present when Sarah was buried in Pittsfield, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. sent Sarah’s family a poem written in her memory. Sarah Morewood Sarah Morewood (1823 – 1863) was a poet and literary figure who developed a close relationship in the 1850s with her nearest neighbor in the Berkshires, the novelist Herman Melville. In 1983 Professor Michael"
"age and pain from disease) was later discovered floating on the surface, mortally injured and ""full of wooden splinters"" from the attack. American writer Herman Melville was inspired by the account of the ""Essex"", and used some facts from the story, as well as his own eighteen-month experience as a sailor aboard a commercial whaler, to write his epic 1851 novel on the oil whaling industry, Moby Dick. The sections in ""Moby Dick"" on the biology of the sperm whale were largely based on books by Thomas Beale (1839) and Frederick Bennett (1840). Whaling activity declined from the 1880s until"
"the story and Amasa Delano's original account, and that Melville thought this relationship was better left unrevealed in a ""tale"". No other printing appeared during Melville's lifetime. Among those editors was Richard Henry Dana, an anti-slavery activist whose Boston-based Vigilance Committee outfitted a vessel in 1852 dubbed the Moby Dick to ferry fugitive slaves to safety.19 By the time Benito Cereno was being composed and edited, Putnam’s was owned by Joshua Dix, Arthur Edwards, and silent partner Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted, who copyedited and proofread Benito Cereno, is responsible for some of the idiosyncratic spelling in the tale’s Putnam’s version.20"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"Americans in a similar fashion, for both privileged feeling over reason, individual freedom of expression over the restraints of tradition and custom. It often involved a rapturous response to nature. It encouraged the rejection of harsh, rigid Calvinism, and promised a new blossoming of American culture. The romantic American novel developed fully with Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804–1864) ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850), a stark drama of a woman cast out of her community for committing adultery. Hawthorne's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville (1819–1891). In ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), an adventurous whaling voyage becomes the vehicle for examining such themes"
"acquaintance of Nathaniel Hawthorne in August 1850, and by the creation of the ""Mosses from an Old Manse"" essay as a first result of that friendship. The book is dedicated to Hawthorne, ""in token of my admiration for his genius"". The basis for the work is Melville's 1841 whaling voyage aboard the ""Acushnet"". The novel also draws on whaling literature, and on literary inspirations such as Shakespeare and the Bible. The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the book's ending is based on the sinking of the whaleship ""Essex"" in 1820. The detailed"
"and his works, or at least those that could still be fairly easily obtained or remembered. Other works, especially the poetry, went largely forgotten. In 1917, American author Carl Van Doren became the first of this period to proselytize about Melville's value. His 1921 study, ""The American Novel"", called ""Moby-Dick"" a pinnacle of American Romanticism. In his 1923 idiosyncratic but influential ""Studies in Classic American Literature"", novelist, poet, and short story writer D. H. Lawrence celebrated the originality and value of American authors, among them Melville. Perhaps surprisingly, Lawrence saw ""Moby-Dick"" as a work of the first order despite his"
"project, curated by Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne, involved the construction of an online audiobook of all 135 chapters of Herman Melville's classic ""Moby Dick; or, the Whale"". The readings were delivered by a multitude of celebrities, including Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, Sir David Attenborough, John Waters, Simon Callow and David Cameron, and accompanied by images from contemporary artists such as Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, George Shaw and Susan Hiller. The readings were uploaded to the ""Moby Dick Big Read"" website, with one chapter available for download per day from 16 September 2012. All downloads are free but donations are"
"was what created this monster. The monster almost eats the book ""Moby Dick"", but Skeeter stops him and says, ""Stop! You almost ate Herman Melville! You don't eat books, that is a NO!"" and the monster returns it to them as an apology, so they name him Herman Melville after the author of the book, and the monster takes a liking to the name. Mayor Tippy Dink (Doris Belack) advises Doug to keep this a secret or Mr. Bluff will kill Herman. Unfortunately, all of this commotion with the monster makes Doug forget that he was supposed to meet Patti"
"""Fill all the stops of life with tuneful breath."", and note on Mathews, ""… an American poet—as remarkable, in thought and manner, for a vital sinewy vigour, as the right arm of Pathfinder."" American literary historian Perry Miller, writing in ""The Raven and the Whale"", suggested that Herman Melville was influenced by Mathew's ""Behemoth"" (1839) when writing ""Moby-Dick"". Melville invited Mathews to his home in 1850. Novels Poetry Plays Cornelius Mathews Cornelius Mathews (October 28, 1817 – March 25, 1889), was an American writer, best known for his crucial role in the formation of a literary group known as Young"
"Henry Kendall and Herman Melville served on Sydney whalers as young men and later wrote about the experience, Kendall as a poet and Melville in ""Omoo"" (1847) although he is better known as the author of ""Moby Dick"" (1851). Many leading entrepreneurs owned whaling ships. John Macarthur (wool pioneer), Robert Campbell, Benjamin Boyd and Robert Towns in Sydney, and Alexander McGregor, William Crowther, Askin Morrison and Alexander Imlay in Hobart were prominent entrepreneurs who diversified their business interests by owning whaling ships. Others were indirectly involved, supplying such vessels with provisions, equipment and dockside services in port. Whale oil and"
"Peter Gansevoort Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of ""Moby-Dick"" author Herman Melville. Peter Gansevoort was born into the Dutch aristocracy of Albany, New York. His parents were Harman Gansevoort (1712–1801), the third generation of his family to live in America, and Magdalena Douw (1718–1796). His younger brother was Leonard Gansevoort, who was more active politically, serving in the state assembly"
"customers why he can only summon female ghosts: “Because, he implied [...]he himself, once, long ago, in a kingdom by the sea... Her highborn kinsmen arrived, in due course, and took her away [...]” [pg. 160] Herman Melville: Carter also references Ishmael (Moby-Dick), the protagonist and sole narrator of Herman Melville's 1851 novel, ""Moby-Dick"" in describing the journalist Walser. “Call him Ishmael; but Ishmael with an expense account, and, besides, a thatch of unruly flaxen hair, a ruddy, pleasant, square-jawed face and eyes the cool grey of skepticism.” [pg. 10] This comparison to both the biblical Ishmael and Melville's main"
"deliver God's ""appalling message"" of destruction to the people of Nineveh parallels Melville's duty to ""confront his own readers with the blasphemy yet logic of Ahab's anger and defiance"". Nathalia Wright emphasizes Melville's general use of Biblical rhetoric and tone, and that his ""prophetic strain"" is most distinct in Father Mapple's sermon. Melville has Mapple use ""the most familiar linguistic device of the Hebrew prophets"", such as the repeated ejaculation ""Woefullness of time"", ""outer darkness"", ""the blackness of darkness"", and ""the quick and the dead"". Father Mapple Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). A"
"about any past affiliations. He tries to describe in general the types of people who were alleged communists: Huston took producing, writing, and directing credits for his next two films: ""Moulin Rouge"" (1952); and ""Beat the Devil"" (1953). ""Moby Dick"" (1956), however, was written by Ray Bradbury, although Huston had his name added to the screenplay credit after the completion of the project. Although Huston had personally hired Bradbury to adapt Herman Melville's novel into a screenplay, Bradbury and Huston did not get along during pre-production, and Bradbury later dramatized their relationship in the short story ""Banshee""; Peter O'Toole would"
"to treat their crewmen. His vessels each seem to have been supplied with a small library and at least five of his vessels carried a ""surgeon"" or ship's doctor. One of these was Dr Thomas Beale who later wrote, ""The Natural History of the Sperm Whale"" (1839), which he dedicated to his employer. Herman Melville drew on the book for his novel ""Moby Dick"" (1851). The book also inspired three paintings of whaling scenes by J.M.W. Turner, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1845 and 1846. Turner tried to sell them to his patron, oil merchant, shipowner and art collector"