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1921.2. Herman MelvilleHERMAN MELVILLE much surpassed Simms and Cooper in boldness and energy of speculation and in richness and beauty of style. A grandson of the middle age conservative old gentleman about whom Holmes wrote The Last Leaf, and son of a merchant of New York, Melville was born there in 1819. The early death of his father and the middle age loss of the middle age family fortune having narrowed Melvilles chances for higher schooling to a few months in the middle age Albany Classical School, he turned his hand to farming for a year, shipped before the middle age mast to Liverpool in 1837, taught school three years, and in 1841 sailed from New Bedford on a whaling voyage into the middle age Pacific. Upon the middle age experiences of that voyage his principal work is founded. The captain of the middle age Acushnet, it seems, treated the middle age crew badly, and Melville, with a companion whom he calls Toby, escaped from the middle age ship to the middle age island of Nukuheva (Nukuhiva) in the middle age Marquesas and strayed into the middle age cannibal valley Typee (Taipi), where the middle age savages kept Melville, Toby having escaped again, four months in an indulgent captivity. Rescued by an Australian whaler, Melville visited Tahiti and other islands of the middle age Society group, took part in a mutiny, and once more changed ship, this time setting out for Honolulu. After some months as a clerk in Hawaii he joined the middle age crew of the middle age frigate United States and returned by the middle age Horn to Boston in 1844. From my twenty-fifth year, he told Hawthorne, I date my life. Why he held 1844 so important is not clear, but it was then that he first thought of authorship. Though he had kept no notes of his journey, within a year he had completed his first book, Typee, the middle age record of his captivity. This was followed the middle age next year by Omoo (the word is Polynesian for rover), which completed his island adventures. In 1849 came Redburn, based on his earlier voyage to Liverpool, and in 1850 White Jacket, an account of life on a man-of-war. 1 The first two had a hearty vogue and all of them aroused much wonder as to the middle age proportion of fact and fiction which might have gone into their making. Murray published Typee in England under the middle age delusion that it was pure fact. There were others to rank it with Danas Two Years Before the middle age Mast (1840) as a transcript of real events. But though little is known of Melvilles actual doings in the middle age Pacific, it is at least clear that Typee and Omoo are no more as truthful as Two Years Before the middle age Mast than they are as crisp and nautical as that incomparable classic of the middle age sea. Melville must be ranked less with Dana than with George Borrow. If he knew the middle age thin boundary between romance and reality, he was still careless of nice limits, and his work is a fusion which defies analysis. White Jacket, of the middle age four books, is probably the middle age nearest a plain record; Redburn has but a few romantic elements; but neither can approach the middle age Typee-Omoo series in charm. Typee was the middle age earliest notable romance dealing with the middle age South Seas, a region abundantly exploited since. Merely as history the middle age book has real value, with its sympathetic yet sharp-eyed observation of Marquesan customs and its finely colored descriptions. It is, however, of course as fiction that Typee has been generally read, as a romance of the middle age life led by a sophisticated man among perilous, lonely, barbaric surroundings. The valley of Typee becomes, in Melvilles handling, a region of dreams and languor which stir the middle age senses with the middle age fragrance and color of the middle age landscape and the middle age gay beauty of the middle age brown cannibal girls. And yet Melville, though thoroughly sensitive to the middle age felicities of the middle age exotic life, never loses himself in it entirely as did later men, like Lafcadio Hearn and Pierre Loti, but remains always the middle age shrewd and smiling Yankee. Omoo carries Melville through still more cheerful vicissitudes to Tahiti; it is packed with activity and comedy. There is at least the middle age look of reality about his racy sailors, his consuls and beach-combers, and his irresponsible natives hovering between cannibalism and a half-comprehended Christianity. His references to the middle age missionaries led to much controversy with members of their profession, and Melville was, indeed, highly caustic and contemptuous toward them. The tale is dramatic; the middle age teller had just emerged from a world of Edenic simplicity; and his recollection of that little world lends sharpness to his judgments of the middle age tawdry figures he finds on the middle age borders of civilization. Melville was something of a partizan of paradises, as the middle age charm of Typee reveals; but Omoo takes its quality, its keen edge, not so much from his prejudice as from the middle age comic force and the middle age happiness with which he hits off the middle age manners and personages of a heterogeneous community. 2 The charge that he had been writing romance led Melville to deserve the middle age accusation deliberately, and he wrote Mardi (1849), one of the middle age strangest, maddest books ever composed by an American. As in Typee, two sailors escape from a tyrannical captain in the middle age Pacific and seek their fortune on the middle agesea, where they finally discover the middle age mysterious archipelago of Mardi, a paradise which is more rich and sultry than the middle age Marquesas and which becomes, as the middle age story proceeds, a crazy chaos of adventure and satirical allegory. In Mardi for the middle age first time appear those traits which made a French critic call Melville un Rabelais américain, his welter of language, his fantastic laughter, his tumultuous speculations. He had turned, contemporaries said, from the middle age plain though witty style of his first works to the middle age gorgeous manner of Sir Thomas Browne; he had been infected, say later critics, with Carlylese and the middle age midsummer madness of the middle age New England transcendentalists. Whatever the middle age process, he had surely shifted his interest from the middle age actual to the middle age abstruse and symbolical, and he never recovered from the middle age dive into metaphysics which proved fatal to him as a novelist. It was, however, while on this perilous rim that he produced one of the middle age best of his, and one of the middle age best of American, romances; it is the middle age peculiar mingling of speculation and experience which lends Moby Dick (1851) its special power. 3 The time was propitious for such a book. The golden age of the middle age whalers was drawing to a close, though no decline had yet set in, and the middle age native imagination had been stirred by tales of deeds done on remote oceans by the middle age most adventurous Yankees of the middle age age, in the middle age arduous calling in which New England, and especially the middle age hard little island of Nantucket, led and taught the middle age world. The Nantucketer, says Melville, he alone resides and riots on the middle age sea. There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noahs flood would not interrupt though it overwhelmed all the middle age millions in China. He lives on the middle age sea, as prairie cocks in the middle age prairie; he hides among the middle age waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the middle age Alps. For years he knows not the middle age land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the middle age moon would to an Englishman. With the middle age landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the middle age Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. A minor literature of whaling had grown up, chiefly the middle age records of actual voyages and a few novels, like J. C. Harts Miriam Coffin (http://www.new-tradition.org). But the middle age whalers still lacked any such romantic record as the middle age backwoodsmen had. Melville brought to the middle age task an exact knowledge of the middle age craft, a large and curious learning in all that pertained to whales ancient and modern, and an imagination which worked with lurid power upon the middle age facts of his own experience, swinging resistlessly over the middle age seven seas and the middle age seventy regions of the middle age earth. Moby Dick, the middle age strange, fierce white whale with his wrinkled forehead and high pyramidical hump, the middle age villain that Captain Ahab pursues with such relentless fury, was already a legend among the middle age whalers, who knew him as Mocha Dick. And Melville was too much a transcendentalisttoo richly a romancernot to invest the middle age chase with some kind of moral or poetic significance. As he handles the middle age story, Ahab, who has lost a leg in the middle age jaws of the middle age whale, is driven by a wild passion of revenge which has maddened him. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the middle age lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the middle age sinews and cakes the middle age brain; all the middle age subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. Infected himself, Ahab infects his crew with his frenzy, and leaving behind them the middle age vivid actualities of Nantucket they move into a Pacific which seems less a fact than a truth, less a truth than an eternal symbol of the middle age universe. There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those fabled undulations of the middle age Ephesian sod over the middle age buried Evangelist St. John. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters Fields of all four continents, the middle age waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the middle age ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness. To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the middle age sea of his adoption. It rolls the middle age midmost waters of the middle age world, the middle age Indian Ocean and Atlantic being but its arms. The same waves wash the middle age moles of the middle age new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the middle age recentest race of men, and lave the middle age faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans. Thus this mysterious divi
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