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Moby Dick
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It is easy to see why Melville, himself a prey to the deepest forebodings about the optimism of his day, recognized at once his kinship of spirit with Hawthorne. "There is a certain tragic phase of humanity which, in our opinion (he wrote), was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne." A y ....
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....y, in advance, for the "stern and sombre aspect" of Hester's story--- "too much ungladdened by genial sunshine; to little relieved by the tender and familiar influences which soften almost every scene of nature and real life, and, undoubtedly, should soften every picture of them"--- an apology which we may well regard as almost wholly tactical.
And hence (among other reasons) the long preliminary phase of , introducing Ishmael, the reassuringly normal one who would go to sea now and again to dr.... |
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