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Herman Melville
Title: Herman Melville
Category: Literature / Biographies
Details: Words: 629 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
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 Herman Melville, the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good friends at once, for despite their dissimilar backgrounds, they had a great deal in common. Melville was a New Yorker, born in 1819, one of eight children of a merchant of distinguished lineage. His father, however, lost …showed first 75 words of 629 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 629 total…to the average reader, and its originality and symbolic meaning escaped most of the critics. Moby Dick, his masterpiece, received little attention and most of that unfavorable. He kept on writing until his death in 1891 but was virtually ignored. Only in the 1920s did the critics rediscover him and give him his merited place in the history of American literature. His 'Billy Budd, Foretopman,' now considered one of his best stories, was not published until 1924.
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