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Herman Melville

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Herman Melville was an American writer, poet, and literary critic, author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick, considered one of the masterpieces of American literature.

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Moby-Dick

> Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale, In his ocean home will be, A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless sea . This anthem closes a vast preamble in which Melville, like "a mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub," compiles an extensive catalogue of citations on the Whale, spanning from the Bible to world literature. Self-taught and

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