A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
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"As an author Melville both courted failure and scorned success."(pg.
613, A Companion to Melville Studies). How many famous legends in time have
existed to know no fame. How many remarkable artist have lived and died never
receiving due credit for there work. Herman Melville is clearly an artis ....
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.... was a hero. Even though the General died six years before
Melville was born, Melville still put him in his book, Pierre.
On the outer side of the blood line there was Major Melville. The Major
was a wealthy Boston merchant who was one of the famous "Mohawks" who boarded
the ship of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in
to the Boston Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port
of Boston, a post given to him by Gorge Washington. It is l ....
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