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474 Herman Melville
The History of Literature
The Life and Times of Melville Gansevort
Melville had developed a kind of grandiose sense of himself while at sea intelligent adventurous marked by greatness but suffering unfairly due to circumstances out of his control. Something about the wide open ocean called to him suggesting the presence of God or the infinite and his soul expanded to fill the entire universe. He identified with different forms of existence all different cultures, downtrodden as well as the foreign and often misunderstood those were Melville's people he hated authority he longed to be free he longing to be great.
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