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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 lineag ....
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.... Emerson, seconding the Emersonian
demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own literature.
"Believe me," he wrote, "men not very much inferior to Shakespeare are this day
being born on the banks of the Ohio." Yet he considered Emerson's vague talk
about striving and the inherent goodness of mankind complacent nonsense.
Experience made Melville too aware of the evil in the world to be a
transcendentalist. His novel Redburn based on hi ....
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