| 单词 | Herman Melville |
| 例句 | “I see your father is well versed in the works of Herman Melville.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Three recent books look closely at Herman Melville’s life and times and testify to the enduring appeal of his most famous creation. Do you know the truth behind Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The apercus tumble down torrentially: Emily Dickinson is “supernally intelligent” and a “radical nihilist”; Edgar Allan Poe’s “verse is of a badness not to be believed”; Herman Melville “is the most Shakespearean of our authors.” Harold Bloom takes on 12 American greats in ‘The Daemon Knows’ 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z A descendant of Herman Melville whose real name is Richard Melville-Hall, he was born in Harlem, when his father was a graduate student at Columbia. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z He translated Herman Melville in East Germany, but Faulkner stirred him most. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z As Herman Melville observed, to write a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme. Muhammad Ali, Beginning to End for the First Time in a Book 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z You might never have cracked Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” and still use the phrase “great white whale” to mean an obsessive but elusive goal. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z At the literal level, Herman Melville’s great American novel is all about the sinking of a ship, shattered by a great white whale. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z Robbins then mentioned the phrase “We don’t like Henry James so much we like Herman Melville” from the poem “Personal Poem,” by Frank O’Hara. Running the “Moby-Dick” Marathon 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z On Sunday outings, he delved into Boston and ranged widely, his children in tow, from Herman Melville’s house in Pittsfield to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s in Salem and — chanting “Snow-Bound”— to John Greenleaf Whittier’s in Amesbury. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Auden wrote an amazing poem about Herman Melville. Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z From Herman Melville to Mae West, pinball machines to a slave ship, Robert Indiana drew inspiration for his art from American sources that had deeply personal meanings. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Poor old Herman Melville, meanwhile, allegedly had PTSD, bipolar disorder and rheumatism, on top of being an alcoholic – whatever that term might mean when applied to bygone eras. Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z Like Jack, the protagonist in “Herman Melville, Volume 1,” is originally from Tucson, although the setting of this story is a long way from the dryness and heat of Arizona. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato on the Short Story as a Fling 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In the aggregate, they possess more than 170 years of professional copy editing experience, meaning that, when they collectively began to work in the word business, Herman Melville was writing Chapter 3 of “Moby-Dick.” Perspective | How do you pronounce the word ‘what’? 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Sex, politics, vampires, science fiction, Herman Melville — nothing is alien to this restless and resourceful filmmaker. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z More than any other active filmmaker Mr. Malick belongs in the visionary company of homegrown romantics like Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane and James Agee. | 'The Tree of Life': Heaven, Texas and the Cosmic Whodunit 2011-05-26T16:50:46Z When it comes to all of the above, James McBride takes a page from Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” James McBride Doesn’t Read Reviews. Here’s Why. 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z If alive today, Herman Melville would pen long recaps of each episode. Perspective | Here’s to the class-conflicted, workplace-inappropriate ‘Below Deck’ — TV’s ideal mental vacation 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Prior to the 20th century, the oceans were central to human popular culture, as evident from Homer's "The Odyssey" to Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Herman Melville could be told that “Moby-Dick” is widely considered to be among the greatest American novels. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Herman Melville, it turns out, writes less like himself than King, according to I Write Like. Do you write like Kurt Vonnegut or Judy Blume? Website analyzes text 2010-07-16T23:10:00Z They gradually descend into the kind of isolation-induced maritime madness that Herman Melville would approve of. ‘The Lighthouse,’ with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z At the beginning of “Riddance,” Headmistress Joines writes a letter to Herman Melville, who has been dead for nearly thirty years. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Like many Pittsfield folks, I’m inspired by the wayfaring spirit of Herman Melville, who wrote “Moby-Dick” in my hometown. A Gay Pilot Reflects on What Travel Means to Queer Folks 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Though brief, this is an ambitious book, offering insightful readings of authors including Homer, Dante, Descartes and Kant, as well as the novelists Herman Melville and David Foster Wallace. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z Herman Melville and Walt Whitman provide some literary ballast for this idea, but as an exploration of — and argument for — the power of human sympathy, “The Whale” is undone by simplistic psychologizing and intellectual fuzziness. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s well-known that Herman Melville fell in love with the handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Glittered with allusions to Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne, Chloe’s journey is a compendium of every possible disaster, leavened with a Gilbert & Sullivan sensitivity. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z On Nov. 25, the company will show the premiere of a new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera “Billy Budd” — a 1951 adaptation of Herman Melville’s unfinished novel about a sailor accused of staging a mutiny. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z One remains aware of the suppressed homosexual yearnings coursing through a Herman Melville adaptation that had as one of its co-librettists the novelist E.M. Review: In 'Billy Budd,' a Cry for Kindness Pierces a Haunting Moral Grayness 2010-06-01T11:00:00Z A new mini-series based on Herman Melville’s novel tries to have it both ways, adding a fillip of Mark Twain to the immortal tale of Ahab and the white whale. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z Egan also gestures to this paradox by choosing as her epigraph a quote from Herman Melville, who spent most of his life not on the island of Nantucket but on the island of Manhattan. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan Sets a Crime Story on the Waterfront 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z American literature contains a surprising amount of cannibals: To read Herman Melville is to believe that life’s main struggles will come in the form of elusive whales and meeting people who want to eat you. Perspective | I am a former cannibalism scholar, and I finally watched ‘Dahmer’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Herman Melville, a moderately successful author at the time of the novel’s release in 1851, assumes it will be seen as his masterwork. Moby Dick and gravity: how our understanding of truth evolves 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Of course Herman Melville’s classic novel, published in 1851, isn’t about this latest turn in American democracy. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z But the opera, based on the Herman Melville story, is really about the effect that Billy has on the crew and officers of that ship, especially Captain Vere. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z On Saturday night, plenty of the audience were having a whale of a time at Spymonkey's gleeful mistelling of Herman Melville's epic novel. Moby Dick 2010-04-26T20:30:00Z I’d also found a sister city in the United States with the same name, which had a museum with a room dedicated to Herman Melville. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Herman Melville suffered for us all, I think, so that those of us who came after can console ourselves that when we’re dead, reviewers will be sorry. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The salty sea-dog prose is informed by his study of 19th-century dialect, and the plot has elements of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, with perhaps a dash of HP Lovecraft. The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers on storms, seagulls and spraying Robert Pattinson with a hose 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Based on a novella by Herman Melville, the play, by the poet Robert Lowell, is keen to rail against oppression and condemn political hypocrisy. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z He’s a hedonist, an intellectual and a literary magpie, able to evoke the voices of writers from Herman Melville to Ursula K. Le Guin. David Mitchell is over the genre wars: “Confining an entire genre as being unworthy of your attention is a bizarre act of self-harm” 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “The Great Gatsby” and “Vertigo” were flops; Franz Kafka and Herman Melville died as unknowns. “Obvious Child”: An abortion rom-com makes history 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Coastal nations worldwide bought them, and writers including Herman Melville and Walt Whitman visited new installations. Antiques: The Fall of Gnomes: Tasteful to Tacky 2013-05-30T20:04:26Z The serial comma, also known as the Oxford comma, is the one before “and” in a series of three or more: Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick,” “Billy Budd,” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” Comma Queen: The Strippers, J.F.K. and Stalin—or, the Importance of Serial Commas 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z In 1961-62, he declared his bond with his literary past by stenciling sentences onto his paintings from canonical novels and poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Water, water everywhere in Herman Melville's leviathan classic. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z Herman Melville stayed physically out of the fray but wrote dozens of knotty, passionate poems during, and about, the war. American Eden, After the Fall 2013-01-10T22:01:26Z Here, and elsewhere, The Passages of Herman Melville feels overemphasised. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z It was this same story that Herman Melville used for his 1851 epic novel, thereby turning reality into literary legend. Thar she blows! Cinema's most spectacular whale hunts 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z I'm sure Herman Melville would be amazed at this extraordinary new interpretation of his thought-provoking and prophetic book. David Cameron records chapter of Moby-Dick for website 2012-10-14T23:05:30Z He illustrated selections from the poems of Herman Melville to comment on the Ohio National Guard’s killing of students at Kent State University in 1970. Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93 2013-01-21T16:04:35Z Scholars are uncertain whether Herman Melville ever saw Turner’s whaling pictures, but he knew about them. In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Yang is taken by Ms. Odell’s example of Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, who likes to say, “I would prefer not to.” Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Benjamin Britten’s 1951 opera “Billy Budd,” based on Herman Melville’s novella of the same name, follows a group of soldiers aboard a British ship as they battle the French Navy. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Parini is a fine writer who refuses to be confined to any particular genre — poetry, fiction, criticism, biography — even mixing them, for example, with fictionalized accounts of Herman Melville and Leo Tolstoy. Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z It was an extraordinary achievement, combining a history of whaling, a voyage into the life of Herman Melville, reflections on Hoare's own encounters with whales and more. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z U.S. author Herman Melville famously worked as a customs inspector. South African soprano Pretty Yende plans a D.C. recital of classical music and zarzuela Another New Yorker — and contemporary of Whitman — whom Dylan repeatedly references is Herman Melville. Bob Dylan contains multitudes: Walt Whitman as Dylan's muse on "Murder Most Foul" 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Samuel Johnson, Herman Melville and, best of all, Charles Dickens are probably quoted most often. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z In the sense, that is, that Herman Melville specialized in books about sea voyages. Review: In ‘Aquarius,’ a Widow Fights to Keep Her Home 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The French director is known for Beau Travail, a loose reworking of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, and White Material, about a French coffee farmer working in an African state during a civil war. Zadie Smith to co-write space adventure with French director Claire Denis 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z The Library of America, which releases hardcover volumes of the country's greatest authors, from Herman Melville to Saul Bellow, has added Leonard to the pantheon. Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award 2012-09-19T13:26:31Z DuBois, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Herman Melville to meditate on politics, community and isolation. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Maybe the shutters really were as old as Herman Melville, since in some parts of Manhattan buildings did date from the 1860s, back then, more of them than now, though now, too. The Story Is the Thing: On Lucia Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The reference was to the company’s adaptation of “Billy Budd,” the Herman Melville novella. Adrian Hall, Who Invigorated Regional Theater, Dies at 95 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The idea began with a fascination with Herman Melville’s and Paul Gauguin’s visions of the South Pacific, which inspired a deep dive into the region’s mythology. Disney Makes Its Maiden Voyage to the South Pacific 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z His Herman Melville collection, up for auction in September at Christie’s, contains the finest book I can imagine owning: Melville’s heavily annotated copy of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.” Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave. 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z In addition to Skyrim, the physics-based puzzle hit Portal 2 won the Herman Melville Award for best writing and the Great White Way Award for best acting. ArtsBeat: Skyrim Wins Video Game Critics Award 2012-02-03T19:32:45Z Not least, Tanselle closes by presenting and commenting on a sample bibliographical description, using Herman Melville’s novel “Redburn” as a test case. Review | ‘Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial’ raises questions of artistic authenticity amid riveting courtroom drama 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The idea for an animated feature set in the Pacific Islands was conceived five years ago by Musker, who was inspired by the novels of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad and paintings by Paul Gauguin. How Disney's Positioning Moana as the Ultimate Anti-Princess 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “I like how many people here look like Herman Melville,” said Heffernan. Running the “Moby-Dick” Marathon 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Among the American canon, he loves Herman Melville and Henry Thoreau, has trouble with Nathaniel Hawthorne and struggles to understand Walt Whitman. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z Herman Melville was a frequent visitor to Snug Harbor, which in the mid-1800s was a home for retired sailors presided over by his older brother Thomas. Spare Times Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The shutters banged in the wind, shutters as old as Herman Melville. The Story Is the Thing: On Lucia Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z In the sixth volume, an employee of Herman Melville’s in the New York customs office is murdered by a homophobic co-worker. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z He recommended that we visit Monument Mountain, where Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne reportedly once picnicked and discussed Melville’s ideas for a novel he was working on. On a Jeep tour of Stockbridge, Mass., it’s all easy on the eyes. Maybe too easy. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In 1849, Herman Melville sailed for Britain, leaving his young family behind in New York. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z “One of them is the country of Uncle Sam,” he wrote, “an America, in the words of Herman Melville, ‘intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in the externals but savage at heart.’ Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The dispute has pit neighbor against neighbor and has pulled in some bold-face names on the little island that Herman Melville called an “elbow of sand.” Billionaire fights Nantucket clam shack 18 inches from his home 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z There are epigraphs from Ovid, Herman Melville and Shakespeare; when one from Cormac McCarthy's The Road appears at the top of another chapter, it feels almost inevitable. When a Wildfire Burns a City Built for Extracting Oil 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “A Soldier’s Play,” which was adapted into the 1984 film “A Soldier’s Story,” was inspired by Herman Melville’s novella “Billy Budd.” After four decades, 'A Soldier's Play' is still urgent in Tony-winning revival 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The town Herman Melville immortalized in “Moby-Dick” remains a top port for commercial fishing and seafood processing, but the city’s economy can’t depend on just that, he said. Once a whaling port, New Bedford wants to light the world again, with wind 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Also, there is no disputing the fact that Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick.” Review | Alexandra Petri saves U.S. history as only she can: By making it silly 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Great writers in the tradition of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Patrick O’Brian have used the self-contained world of a ship and its crew to tell stories of fear, greed and rebellion. As Scorsese preps his "Flower Moon," David Grann's new book takes to the high seas 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z It wasn’t lost on Rodriguez that the story that inspired Herman Melville happened in the same region. Sailboat crew rescued in Pacific after abandoning ship sunk by whale 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Herman Melville in particular — one of the “great explorers of inwardness, mystery and the inexplicable” — became a companion spirit, traveling some of the same paths as Iyer. How COVID lockdowns drove travel writer Pico Iyer to think of paradise 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s the setting of her classics “Chocolat,” “White Material” and “Beau Travail” — the last a version of Herman Melville’s novel “Billy Budd, Sailor” set in Djibouti with Foreign Legionnaires. Page to Screen: Claire Denis on how she adapted the late Denis Johnson's 'Stars at Noon' 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Five years after “The Brownsville Raid,” Fuller used similar themes and settings in “A Soldier’s Play,” for which he was influenced by Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” ‘A Soldier’s Play’ playwright Charles Fuller dies at 83 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z That style mostly always worked, giving Mr. Marías a reputation as a virtuoso storyteller whose canvas was much larger than the story itself in the mold of Marcel Proust or Herman Melville. Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In Herman Melville’s 1853 short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a Wall Street clerk bewilders his manager by politely refusing to do basic tasks, including leaving the office. Gen Z didn't coin 'quiet quitting' — Gen X did 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Shin cites capaciously, bringing in Herman Melville, Rainer Maria Rilke and Korean burial rites. Sun Yung Shin’s poems explore the world of transnational adoption in ‘The Wet Hex’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z It rarely happens, but on March 30, two popular cartoons — “Zits” and “Frank and Ernest” — dealt with an identical topic on the same day of publication: American literary classic “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: The slap heard around The Post 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The American literary canon is full of men with weapons and creatures pursued — Herman Melville’s whale, William Faulkner’s bear. ‘An Environmentalist With a Gun’: Inside Steven Rinella’s Hunting Empire 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z “Billy Budd” Los Angeles Opera streams its 2014 production of Benjamin Britton’s musical adaptation of the Herman Melville novella about a young British sailor in conflict with a cruel superior officer. 5 SoCal shows to see in person, plus the best culture streaming this weekend 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z And is there a more imaginative adaptation than Denis’ “Beau Travail,” which turned Herman Melville’s unfinished novella “Billy Budd” into a sweeping ballet? Oscars 2001 rewind: What won ... and what should have won 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Let’s hope Season 3 brings a run-in with Herman Melville or Harriet Beecher Stowe. How 'Dickinson' perfected its 21st-century love letter to a 19th-century poet 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Blue Harvest Fisheries sits half a mile north of Pier 3 on Herman Melville Boulevard. Much of America's seafood comes through this city. Here's how it controlled COVID-19. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Herman Melville captured the importance of hiring music-minded seamen for extended journeys, which could last three or four years. Thar she blows up! How sea shanty TikTok took over the internet 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Herman Melville’s mad Capt. Ahab spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg. Movies on TV this week: March 15: 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' on Freeform; Raiders of the Lost Ark and more 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z While working night shifts as an intern in a hospital on Long Island, he devoured Mark Twain, Herman Melville and the great 19th-century Russian writers. Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Thursday marks the 200th birthday of Herman Melville – the author of the greatest unread novel in the English language. Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Herman Melville died in New York, in 1891, at the age of seventy-two. Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Powers, 61, has long been praised by critics and fellow writers for his blend of science, literature and technology; Margaret Atwood has likened his gifts and ambitions to Herman Melville’s. Pulitzers given to Aretha Franklin, author Richard Powers 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “No Man’s Land” samples remarks from neighbors and husband, sprinkled with a bit of Herman Melville, Marilynne Robinson and Toni Morrison. It's the right time for Eula Biss' 'Notes From No Man's Land" reissue 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He was joined in his campaign by author Herman Melville. Perspective | Meet the Navy man who fought anti-Semites and flogging — and saved Monticello 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Even Henry Murray, a director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic and co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test , attributed his understanding of narcissism to Herman Melville, “the greatest depth psychologist America ever produced.” Perspective | Five myths about personality tests 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Herman Melville was born in New York in 1819, his sister Augusta two years later. Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z He had recently finished the manuscript of his latest book, “The Chambers of the Soul: Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville and the Blues.” This week’s passages 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Below its silvery surface - which Herman Melville called “the ocean’s skin” - white-sided dolphin surfed into view, leaping and foraging around the whales. 'Barnacled angels': the whales of Stellwagen Bank – a photo essay 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Historically, these have included the likes of Herman Melville and Washington Irving. President Washington, Your Library Books Are Overdue 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z For some readers, loving Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad requires some peacemaking with the not-quite-human representations of black people in those texts. Who Gets to Decide What Belongs in the ‘Canon’? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Her streak of rural carnage, she says, was also partly inspired by a line from “Herman Melville,” a poem by W.H. An Affable Canadian Author With a Penchant for Murder 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In the short story by Herman Melville from which our new column takes its name, Bartleby was a scrivener—a dying art, nowadays. Introducing Bartleby, our new column on management and work 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z She confirmed herself as one of cinema’s hardcore visionaries with 1999’s Beau Travail, a fragmented, chilling story of the French Foreign Legion, shot in Djibouti and based loosely on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. Claire Denis: ‘I couldn’t care less about the Weinstein affair' 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z It became a leading publisher of poetry and classic works of literature by such authors as Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens and Herman Melville. Drue Heinz, philanthropist and Paris Review publisher, dies at 103 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The library was filled with books about sailing and Herman Melville novels. Redemption of a Lost Prodigy 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Rockwell Kent was so much more famous than Herman Melville in 1930 that his name alone appears on the Art Deco jacket for Random House’s “Moby-Dick.” New book is a colorful history of judging a book by its cover 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Americans may be trapping the next William James, Herman Melville, or Bob Dylan in a cubicle: and for what? Fear over healthcare locks Americans in jobs – and throttles creativity | Jonathan R Goodman 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z And Herman Melville used it in a poem about a shark. Kim Jong-un Called Trump a ‘Dotard.’ How Harsh Is That Burn? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Herman Melville described this colour as the “dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows – a colorless all-color of atheism from which we shrink”. Watching ice melt: inside Nasa’s mission to the north pole 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Herman Melville famously embarked from the port on a whaling odyssey that became the basis for “Moby-Dick.” Can Offshore Wind Power Revive U.S. Ports? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The investigation was prompted by the discovery that the musician had quoted a passage which does not appear in any current editions of Herman Melville's novel. Did Bob Dylan plagiarise his Nobel speech? - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z A reviewer for the New Yorker likened its author to Herman Melville. Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z He’s got Evan’s blue sweater in his hands and then the box of crackers, and then he pulls out Herman Melville. “Herman Melville, Volume I” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z When 25 Craven St. in London hit the market for $7 million a few years ago, prospective buyers heard a whale of a tale: Herman Melville, author of “Moby-Dick,” once lived there. Home Buyers Beware of Tall Tales and Family Legends 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z One weekend might find a special menu of cocktails inspired by post-apocalyptic novels or the works of Herman Melville, while Thursdays focus on lost drinks from vintage cocktail manuals. A guide to eating and drinking in Petworth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Writers as diverse as Herman Melville and Nancy Mitford offer striking passages. Medical research: Mariners' malady : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Herman Melville, perhaps our greatest novelist, painted a dark picture in “The Confidence Man” of a gambler who boards a riverboat on April Fools’ Day and fleeces his fellow passengers. Donald Trump pulls a bait and switch on America 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The two pilots’ writing style is different – Smith’s, iconoclastic and witty, Vanhoenacker’s, poetic, philosophical, erudite – and replete with Herman Melville references. The ups and downs of being an airline pilot 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z At Woodlawn, a cemetery roughly half the size of Central Park, the legacy of four prominent suffragists competes for the limelight with several more famous neighbors, including Miles Davis, Celia Cruz and Herman Melville. Four Prominent Suffragist Grave Sites in the Bronx Anticipating a Surge in Visitors This Election Day 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Schluep also often reads works by Herman Melville and Daniel Defoe when waiting in line—a few pages at a time over however long it takes counts as reading. The Classic Books You Haven’t Read 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Herman Melville pronounced the canal “one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt and often lawless life.” The Erie Canal: A Marvel, Every Inch of the Way 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps most famous is painter Paul Gauguin, but literary icons like Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson also found something special in the islands’ unique environment and culture. Stunning Color Photographs of the Islands That Inspired Great Works of Art 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z So Dickens or Herman Melville or the letters of Abraham Lincoln don't hold any great threat; I think they gave me a big vocabulary. Craig Ferguson bonus talk: on TV, reading, Trump, America and more 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Literature professors “deconstructing” Herman Melville cause nothing worse than excruciating boredom in their students. American higher education is a house divided 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z If Sarmaşık sounds like something from Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad, it’s because Karaçelik contends with similarly primal themes—societal order, guilt, redemption. What a Turkish Film Can Teach Us About American Fear 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The film is based on the true story that inspired the celebrated Herman Melville novel "Moby-Dick." Box office: 'In the Heart of the Sea' sinks below 'Mockingjay -- Part 2' 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Now that it is November, both in soul and out, and the 164th anniversary of the book’s American publication, we account it high time for a marathon reading of Herman Melville’s whaling epic. New York Today: Or, the Whale 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z At East 26th Street and Park Avenue South, where he lived from 1863 until his death, there is a Herman Melville Square. New York Today: Call Us Ishmael 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z He also loves Herman Melville, from whose port his nautical metaphors take sail. A Long Hardwood Journey 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z And about 70 area nonprofits accept BerkShares, bearing the likenesses of local heroes such as Herman Melville and Norman Rockwell, as donations. Writer proposes local currency named after city’s namesake 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z How many commas can fit into a sentence by Herman Melville? Confessions of a Comma Queen 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Nobody puts the case for coziness more beautifully, I reckon, than Herman Melville, in an early passage from Moby-Dick that finds the narrator keeping warm overnight at a boarding-house on the Massachusetts coast: It's time to face facts: fall is better than summer 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The most evocative story of New York's urban planning therefore is ironically one of the oldest, Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener, published in 1853. Reading American cities: New York in books 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z A dramatic retelling of the story that inspired Herman Melville's classic novel will be hitting our screens on BBC One this Sunday - but do whales really attack humans intentionally? The real Moby Dick: Do whales really attack humans? 2013-12-20T01:14:23Z Herman Melville, who was assigned badge number 75, mostly relinquished the pen to inspect cargo ships docked on the Hudson. City Room: New York Today: Team de Blasio 2013-12-05T10:58:34Z One wall was covered with books - cooks' journals, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson - a cornucopia of Polynesian scholarship, fiction and travellers' tales. Giving it all up to be a 'beachcomber' 2013-09-26T23:46:41Z Otherwise, I will recall that other slogan of Occupy’s heady days, borrowed from the pages of Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”: “I would prefer not to.” Why I’m not returning to Zuccotti Park today 2013-09-17T16:31:00Z He thinks the future of ocean creatures and right whales is “pretty tenuous,” as much as Herman Melville did when he wondered whether “Leviathan can endure so wide a chase and so remorseless a havoc.” How Harmful for Whales Is Shipping? [Excerpt] 2013-08-09T14:15:01.067Z Good news for those looking to fulfill their Herman Melville fantasies. Assassins Creed 4: A Look From The Inside 2013-08-01T13:00:00Z Emily Brontë’s behavior was strongly suggestive of Asperger syndrome; Herman Melville was clearly bipolar; Ezra Pound was just nuts. Books: Woe Is Syphilis, and Other Afflictions of Famous Writers 2012-11-26T20:22:34Z Dr. Hamilton’s later writing remained below the radar of the press, focusing on the presence and absence of God in the works of Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare. William Hamilton, Known for ?Death of God? Idea, Dies at 87 2012-03-10T21:34:14Z That Herman Melville knows more about whales than any man from Jonah down, we do really believe.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Farther away is a little farm-house, with a "huge, corpulent, old Harry VIII. of a chimney," to which Hawthorne was a frequent visitor,—the "Arrow-Head" of Herman Melville. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z They were formerly great fighters and ferocious cannibals, as Herman Melville's "Omoo" tells us. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Herman Melville's eccentric genius, greater than any of these, never led him to construct a work of art, for all his amazing power of thought and language. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Unlike his literary icon, Herman Melville, he doesn’t adorn his writing with ornate flourishes or complicated scaffolding. Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing 2011-12-20T15:15:05.230Z Melville Hall, 46, says he is related to Herman Melville and took his stage name from the writer’s fictional whale. Moby Swaps Drink, Parties for Insomnia, Studio Tan: Interview 2011-09-27T23:23:05Z Were I a Herman Melville or a Clark Russell I should be tempted to dwell on this dreary voyage of the prison-ship Buffalo. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z We have a chapter on Herman Melville; and then the Americans are viewed through the spectacles of Marryatt, Trolloppe, Dickens, and their exaggerations are noted. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Lenox has its place in literature, for Hawthorne spent a year there, and in adjoining towns once lived O. W. Holmes, Catherine Sedgwick, Herman Melville, and G. P. R. James. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z All the more urgent, then, for one of those reputation-making panegyrics akin to that with which D. H. Lawrence resuscitated Herman Melville. Thomas Bernhard, the Alienator 2010-12-25T05:35:10Z The bills were designed with pictures of local citizens such as Norman Rockwell and Herman Melville and W.E.B. In Barter Nation, Old Forms of Commerce Are New Again 2010-10-27T11:08:00Z The year of its inaugural voyage, 1841, also marked the departure from New Bedford of another ship, carrying an aspiring author by the name of Herman Melville. Technology Aids Restoration of Whaling Ship Morgan 2010-08-16T21:27:00Z After the pungent and admirably written narrative of that accomplished able seaman, Herman Melville, few books of the same class but must appear flat and unprofitable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Herman Melville merely drops a joke or two as he rolls out of the caboose with a cube of salt horse in his hand. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. It is only now, thirty years after his death and one hundred and two years after his birth, that Raymond M. Weaver’s Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic has appeared. When Winter Comes to Main Street And Herman Melville sounds to us vastly like the harmonious and carefully selected appellation of an imaginary hero of romance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Herman Melville, a grandson, has attained popularity as an author. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) Thompson said his sensations were similar to those of Captain Cook or Herman Melville when they first landed to skim the cream of the fairy islands of the Pacific. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Only two writers had dealt with the mercantile side of the ocean life—Dana, the author of 'Two Years before the Mast,' and Herman Melville, both of them, it is needless to say, Americans. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. At about the same time Herman Melville, an American sailor, ventured overland into Typee Valley, and was captured and treated as a royal guest by the Typee people. White Shadows in the South Seas Herman Melville's masterpiece had long ago become for the old sailor the one piece of literature in the world. The Red Redmaynes Journal of a visit to London and the continent by Herman Melville, 1849-1850. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 January - June By Herman Melville, edited & with an introd. & notes by Willard Thorpe. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December He was much interested in Herman Melville, at this time living in Pittsfield. A Study of Hawthorne Herman Melville, in his excellent novel or biography of "Israel Potter," has an idea somewhat similar to this. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Cooper was thus the first modern novelist of the ocean; and to his influence we are partly indebted for the stirring tales of such writers as Herman Melville and Clark Russell. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Herman Melville lived near by, at Pittsfield, and became a welcome guest and companion, with his boisterous genuine intellectual spirits and animal strength. Nathaniel Hawthorne There are groups of islands scattered over the tropical ocean, especially, to which might well be given Herman Melville's name, "Las Encantadas," the Enchanted Islands. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic But there were few honester or more lovable men than Herman Melville. Hawthorne and His Circle Julian and I had a fine ride yesterday with Herman Melville and two other gentlemen. Memories of Hawthorne When I was a little boy, I read a book spelled in that manner—Herman Melville's "Typee"; and many long hours I dreamed over its pages. The Cruise of the Snark Herman Melville was born in New York on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city. Typee Herman Melville writes, the date being recorded by my father, "Received July 24, 1851," one of the frolicsome letters which it requires second-sight to decipher, the handwriting being, apparently, "writ in water:"— Tuesday afternoon. Memories of Hawthorne Charming long letters come from Herman Melville, though he is not far off. Memories of Hawthorne Herman Melville is drawn to the life by Mrs. Hawthorne, in a letter to her mother. Memories of Hawthorne In the evening Herman Melville came, and Anna again, also. 23d. Memories of Hawthorne On the hither side of Pittsfield sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his 'White Whale,' while the gigantic shadow of Greylock looms upon him from his study window. Typee The letter reads:— 'I have made my first literary pilgrimage, a call upon Herman Melville, the renowned author of 'Typee,' etc. Typee |
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