Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melvillewas an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee, a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick. His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 August 1819
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing
Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.