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.
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
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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...
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Melvilliana: snugged in the arms of Thorvaldsen's Night
Melvilliana: snugged in the arms of Thorvaldsen's Night: Rest therefore, free from all despite, Snugged in the arms of comfortable night. These concluding lines of Herman Melville's poem Immolated...
This was the first post on Melvilliana (as revived on Google's Blogger platform), published August 15, 2011--ten years ago today!
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