/lit/ - Literature

Melville
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Come on anonymous, we both know the answer here.

What did classical american writers thought on America's Foreign Policy?

Were they phantasizing about greatness? Lamenting the weight of the empire? Proclaming that the old world is shit, with a sort of messianic undertone?

How was their perception of the rest of the world? And of themselves, as americans, in front of the course of events

I'm interested.

>>10890381
>Free Willy

Her man

>Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall northward. What do you see? - Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster - tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?

Moby Dick

*blocks your path*

>"Moby," said I, "suck my Dick."

What the fuck

>the greatest English-language novelist of all time was born in a country that hadn't been independent for a century
lol how can Eurofags even compete

Get in here, girls

Was Bartleby autistic?

>>9274185
You know it
But let's make it hard mode
One per country

How are Melville's short stories?

Herman Melville

wtf how did Ishmael remember all of this? how can he remember each and every detail and each and every word that was said? he even knows what the other characters are thinking. i don't think this is real guys

>>8615591
>Whitman and Poe are the greatest American writers.

yo, /lit/, how can I get my prose to be as good as Melville?

Where should I start with Melville? I have Moby Dick, Redburn, and all his short stories (Billy Budd, Bartleby, The Encatadas, etc.)

A bit of a side note, is his poetry any worth getting into? I hear he's getting a bit more acclaim as time goes on. Clarel looks decent.

So I finished Moby Dick. Is the rest of Melville's stuff worth reading? I feel like nothing could live up to Moby Dick.