Proper noun
Matthiessen (plural Matthiessens)
A surname.
As Matthiessen demonstrates, Ahab's first extended speech to the crew, in the "Quarter-Deck" (Ch.36), is "virtually blank verse, and can be printed as such": But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, That thing unsays itself. Source: Internet
Matthiessen (1941), 426 Most importantly, through Shakespeare, Melville infused Moby-Dick with a power of expression he had not previously possessed. Source: Internet
Matthiessen (1941), 426 Through Shakespeare, Melville infused Moby-Dick with a power of expression he had not previously possessed. Source: Internet
Matthiessen (1941), 428–429 Melville's diction depended upon no source, and his prose is not based on anybody else's verse but on "a sense of speech rhythm". Source: Internet
He had learned three essential things, Matthiessen sums up: * To rely on verbs of action, "which lend their dynamic pressure to both movement and meaning." Source: Internet
Matthiessen (1941), 424 Especially the influence of King Lear and Macbeth has attracted scholarly attention. Source: Internet