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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20000817
Author:
HERMAN MELVILLE By Elizabeth Hardwick Viking
160 pp., $19.95
From the first paragraph of Elizabeth Hardwick's portrait of the great American novelist Herman Melville, the reader understands that they're in for an overheated affair. She compares his name to the "romance of the sea, the vast, mysterious waters for which a thousand adjectives cannot suffice." She goes on to describe the mystical vibrations, forbidden seas, and passages to "barbarous coasts" that "Herman Melville" evokes.
Mind you, she's just getting started, and all of this swooning is merely for the ...
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