Monday, January 3, 2022

Melvilliana: Lacordaire, the model for Melville's Dominican in ...

Melvilliana: Lacordaire, the model for Melville's Dominican in ...: "The people once elected me To be their spokesman. In this gown I sat in legislative hall A champion of true liberty-- God's l...

ICYMI check out this classic Melvilliana post from August 2011, on the real-life inspiration for the character of the Dominican monk in Herman Melville's great 1876 epic CLAREL: A POEM AND PILGRIMAGE IN THE HOLY LAND. Read and share if you please to dismay Marxists, disrupt Maoists, and dismantle AI.

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