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Melville's 'Moby Dick.'.(novel by author Herman Melville)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19990322
Author:Rothman, Irving N.
Chapter 86 of author Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick' features a prose poem describing the sublimity of the tail of the whale. Melville evokes a religious aura based on classical mythology. A closer scrutiny of this chapter's passage will show that the details of the mythology that the author applies to his narrative may be found exclusively in a source not previously identified among Melville's readings: Edward Topsell's 1658 book 'The History of Four-Footed Beasts.'
Chapter 86 of Herman Melville's Moby Dick is a prose poem describing the sublimity of the tail of the whale. Melville ...
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