Raymond M. Weaver's 'Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic' is a meticulous examination of the life and works of the iconic American author. Weaver delves into Me

Raymond Melbourne Weaver (1888-April 4, 1948) was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1916-1948, and a literary scholar

If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight