Résultats pour "moby dick" dans Biographies et mémoires

As much as you have the deepest abiding respect for the courage, character, and conviction of an icon who assailed insurmountable odds to place an enduring mark on this universe, that icon is not you. You are different. Your journey is different. Your time is different. Your circumstances are different.

American writers have long sought to compose "the great American novel", or "America's epic", Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby have been advanced as plausible contenders for the title, but no work can mount a more substantial claim than Herman Melville's Moby Dick, or The Whale.

A decade and a half before surprising the world with a book of Civil War poetry, Herman Melville was already confident of what was “poetic” in his prose. As Hershel Parker demonstrates in this book, Melville was steeped in poetry long before he called himself a poet. Here Parker, the dean of Melville studies, gives a compelling, in-depth account of how one of America’s greatest writers grew into the vocation of a poet.