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New books.(five books about author Herman Melville)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20020601
Author:Davenport, Guy

On Broadway in the mid-1840s a messenger boy could have seen Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville--American literature on the hoof, in its great flowering after Cooper and Irving. Mark Twain was Sam Clemens, barefoot and age ten in Hannibal, Missouri. Emily Dickinson was a teenager in Amherst, Massachusetts. Hawthorne was a customhouse official in Salem. Thoreau was in his cabin at Walden Pond, on land owned by Emerson, for whom he occasionally chopped firewood.

In 1846, Melville published his first book (of sixteen written, twelve were published by commercial ...

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