Melville & His Circle

Melville & His Circle
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Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 0820318566
ISBN-13 : 9780820318561
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Download or read book Melville & His Circle written by William B. Dillingham and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle," not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely under-appreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the methaphorical power of roses in art and literature.


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