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Herman Melville
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In 1850 while writing The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne's
publisher introduced him to another writer who was in the midst of a novel. This
was , the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good
friends at once, for despite their dissimilar backgrounds, they had a great deal
in common. ....
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....Yet he considered Emerson's vague talk
about striving and the inherent goodness of mankind complacent nonsense.
Experience made Melville too aware of the evil in the world to be a
transcendentalist. His novel Redburn based on his adventures on a Liverpool
packet, was, as the critic F. O. Matthiessen put it, "a study in disillusion, of
innocence confronted with the world, of ideals shattered by facts." Yet
Melville was no cynic; he expressed deep sympathy for the Indians and for
immigrants, c.... |
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