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"Visible objects of reverence": quotations from Goethe in Melville's annotated New Testament.(Critical essay)
From: Leviathan
Date: 20070601
Author:Duban, James
Deviating from his customary habit of annotation, Herman Melville inscribed lengthy but unattributed quotations on the inside covers of a New Testament and Psalms presented to him in 1846, one of several Melville-family bibles still in existence. (1) Scholarship has accounted for a far briefer quotation located on the front flyleaf of that volume, but the origins of the longer and rather more provocative quotations have until now remained elusive. (2) Here, I identify their source in Thomas Carlyle's translations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and ...
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