Herman Melville
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| Herman Melville | |
|---|---|
 Herman Melville, 1870. Ile pentin bi Joseph Oriel Eaton. | |
| Born | 1 August 1819 New York Ceety, New York, U.S. |
| Dee'd | 28 September 1891 (aged 72) New York Ceety, New York, U.S. |
| Thrift | Novelist, short story writer, teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet, customs inspector |
| Genre | Travelogue, Captivity narrative, Sea story, Gothic Romanticism, Allegory, Taw tale |
| Leeterar muivement | Romanticism |
| Spoose | Elizabeth Knapp Shaw (b.1822- d.1906) (m. 1847–1891)(his daith) |
| Bairns | Malcolm (1849–1867) Stanwix (1851–1886) Elizabeth (1853–1908) Frances (1855–1938) |
| Signatur |  |
Herman Melville[lower-alpha 1] (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) wis an American novelist, writer o short stories, an poet frae the American Renaissance period. Amang his best-kent works are his magnum opus, Moby-Dick (1851), an Typee (1846), a romantic accoont o his experiences o Polynesie life.
Notes[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Oreeginally spelled "Melvill," efter the daith o Melville's faither in 1832 his mither addit an "e" tae the faimily surname—seemingly at the behest o her son Gansevoort (Parker 1996), 67.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Paul Auster, The Art of Fiction No. 178"
- ↑ "Albert Camus cites Melville as one of his key influences in a personal letter to Liselotte Dieckmann printed in the French Review in 1998. Template:Issue
- ↑ "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12"
- ↑ "Studies in Classic American Literature"(1923)
- ↑ Woodward, Richard B. (April 19, 1992). "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction ". The New York Times.
- ↑ Ken Mills (Director) (July 21, 2009). The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE and the Changing Face of Comics (Documentary). Mills James Productions.
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