Melville

Speech parts

1. Melville - Noun

2. Melville - Proper noun

Meaning

United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)

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I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either. John Updike

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods. Ray Bradbury

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. Edward Dahlberg

We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about. Tennessee Williams

And nobody had more class than Melville. Ken Kesey

Melville took on the whole world, saw it all in a vision, and risked everything in prose that sings. You have a sense from the very beginning that Melville had a vision in his mind of what this book was going to look like, and he trusted himself to follow it through all the way. Ken Kesey

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