Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography "... Herman Melville is undoubtedly an original thinker, and boldly and unreservedly expresses his opinions, often in a way that irresistibly startles and enchains the interest of the reader. He possesses amazing powers of expression, he can be terse, copious, eloquent, brilliant, imaginative, poetical, satirical, pathetic, at will. He is never stupid, never dull, but alas! he is often mystical and unintelligible, not from any inability to express himself, for his writing is pure, manly English, and a child can always understand what he says - but the ablest critic cannot always tell what he really means. ... "Such is Herman Melville! A man of whom America has reason to be proud, with all his faults, and, if he does not eventually rank as one of her greatest giants in literature, it will not be owing to any lack of innate genius, but solely to his own incorrigible perversion of his rare and lofty gifts." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.