Hermannus Melville

Hermannus Melville (Novi Eboraci, 1 Augusti 1819; ibidem, 28 Septembris 1891) fuit scriba, nauta, cetarius, fabularum brevium scriptor, libellorum scriptor, mythistoriarum scriptor, peregrinationum scriptor, acroamata, et poeta Americanus. Saepe appellatur particeps Romanticismi obscuri. Illius primi tres libri populo gratissimi erant (primus liber plurimum divenditus est), sed post subitam prosperitatem litterariam decennio 184, pro illo populi favor decennio 185 magnopere imminuebat.

Mox post mortem, sua memoria paene omnino excidit (contra favorem populi Britannici illius pro mythistoriis marinis Decennio 189), sed Moby-Dick, mythistoria praelonga, saeculo vicensimo habebatur in uno ex operibus litterarum Civitatum Foederatarum et mundi summo artificio factis.

Vita

Parentes Allan et Maria Ganeswoort Melvill fuerunt. Tempore cognomen ad Melville mutatum est. Duodecim annos natus, patris orbus, munus exceptoris in mensa publica fungebatur. Deinde operarius fundo avunculi vivebat.

Ab Octobri mense 1830 ad Octobrem 1831, et ab Octobri 1836 ad Martium 1837, scholam frequentabat ubi linguis Graeca Latinaque studebat (Titus 2003:1, 4–10). . . . Ad tempus munus magistri ludi Massaciussetae exsequebatur. Anno 1839, ad Liverpolium profectus est in navi oneraria, Sancto Laurentio nomine, qua ad nautae officium implendum se locaverat. Nauta iterum anno 1842 in navi cetaria in Oceano Pacifico navigabat. Cum in navi Marquesas Marchionis attigissit, illam reliquerit. Tres hebdomades mense Iulio inter indigenas habitabat; posthaec ad Honolulu Havaiorum enavigavit, ubi diu permanebat. Plusquam duo annos inter insulas Oceani Pacifici post habitationem, domum rediit.

Opera

Moby-Dick mythistoria est eius magnum opus, saepe illud in uno ex gravissimis omnis temporis operibus litterarum habetur. Melville librum suo Nathanieli Hawthorne dedicavit.^[1] Melville etiam scripsit Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, et alios libros variorum generum.

Bello Civili Americano confecto, vulgavit Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War, librum poematum qui a populo non bene acceptus est: ex 1200 exemplaribus impressis a Harper & Bros., decem post annos, solum 525 vendita sunt.^[2]

Mythistoriae

Hermannus Melville senex.

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas (1847)
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (1849)
Redburn: His First Voyage (1849)
White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War (1850)
Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale (1851)
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
Isle of the Cross (ca. 1853, since lost)^[3]
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1856)
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) (1924)

Libelli

The Piazza Tales (1856)
- "The Piazza," solus libellus pro congerie scriptus.
- "Bartleby the Scrivener"
- "Benito Cereno"
- "The Lightning-Rod Man"
- "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles"
- "The Bell-Tower"
Non conlecti
- "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1853)
- "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1854)
- "The Happy Failure" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1854)
- "The Fiddler" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September 1854)
- "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1855)
- "Jimmy Rose" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1855)
- "The 'Gees" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1856)
- "I and My Chimney" (Putnam's Monthly Magazine, March 1856)
- "The Apple-Tree Table" (Putnam's Monthly Magazine, May 1856)
Non vulgati Melville vivo
- "The Two Temples"
- "Daniel Orme"

Poemata

Conlectiones

Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)
John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) Editio interretialis
Timoleon (1891) Editio interretialis
Weeds and Wildings, and a Rose or Two (1924)

Poemata non conlecta vel non vulgata

"Epistle to Daniel Shepherd"
"Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh" [sic]
"The Admiral of the White"
"To Tom"
"Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-Temple in Arcadia"
"Puzzlement"
"The Continents"
"The Dust-Layers"
"A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855"
"A Reasonable Constitution"
"Rammon"
"A Ditty of Aristippus"
"In a Nutshell"
"Adieu"

Conatus

Non conlecti Melville vivo:

"Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 1" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser, May 4, 1839)
"Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 2" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser, May 18, 1839)
"Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" (New York Literary World, March 6, 1847)
"Authentic Anecdotes of 'Old Zack'" (Yankee Doodle, II, excerpted September 4, published in full weekly from July 24 to September 11, 1847)
"Mr Parkman's Tour" (New York Literary World, March 31, 1849)
"Cooper's New Novel" (New York Literary World, April 28, 1849)
"A Thought on Book-Binding" (New York Literary World, March 16, 1850)
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (New York Literary World, August 17 and August 24, 1850)

Aliae res

Correspondence, ed. Lynn Horth. 1993. Evanstoniae Illinoesiae et Sicagi: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library. ISBN 0-8101-0995-6.
Journals, ed. Howard C. Horsford, cum Lynn Horth. 1989. Evanstoniae Illinoesiae et Chicago: Northwestern University Press et The Newberry Library. ISBN 0-8101-0823-2.

Nexus interni

Livyatan melvillei

Notae

↑ Susan Cheevers, American Bloomsbury: Ludovica May Alcott, Radulphus Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (Detroit: Thorndike Press, 2006), p. 196. ISBN 0-7862-9521-X.
↑ Howard P. Vincent, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, (Chicago: Packard & Company and Hendricks House, 1947), p. 446.
↑ Robert S. Levine, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Cambridge, England and New York City: Cambridge University Press (1998), xviii. ISBN 0-521-55571-X.

Bibliographia

Adler, Joyce Sparer. 1981. War in Melville's Imagination. Novi Eboraci: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-0575-8.
Arvin, Newton. 1950. Herman Melville. Emeryvilla Californiae: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3871-3.
Bryant, John, ed. 1986. A Companion to Melville Studies. Westport Connecticuta: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23874-X.
Bryant, John. 2001. Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance. Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507782-2.
Beaulieu, Victor-Levy. 1978, 1985. Monsieur Melville. Toronto: Coach House. ISBN 0-88910-239-2.
Garner, Stanton. 1993. The Civil War World of Herman Melville. Laurentii Kansiae: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0602-5.
Goldner, Loren. 2006. Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man. Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer. Novi Eboraci: Queequeg Publications. ISBN 0-9700308-2-7.
Gretchko, John M. J. 1990. Melvillean Ambiguities. Cleveland: Falk & Bright.
Hayford, Harrison. 2003. "Melville's Prisoners." Prooemium Hershel Parker. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-1973-0.
Levine, Robert S., ed. 1998. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Cantabrigiae et Novi Eboraci: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55571-X
Martin, Robert K. Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville.
Parker, Hershel. 1996, 2005. Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. 1, de annis 1819–1851. Baltimorae: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8185-4.
Parker, Hershel. 2002, 2005. Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. 2, de annis 1851–1891. Baltimorae: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8186-2.
Renker, Elizabeth. 1996. Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing. Baltimorae: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5875-5.
Robertson-Lorant, Laurie. 1996. Melville: A Biography. Novi Eboraci: Clarkson Potter. ISBN 0-517-59314-9.
Rogin, Michael Paul. 1983. Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. Novi Eboraci: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-50609-X.
Titus, David K. 2003. "Herman Melville at the Albany Academy." Melville Society Extracts (May), 42:1, 4–10. Herman Melville at the Albany Academy.
Weisberg, Richard H. 1989. The Failure of the Word: The Lawyer as Protagonist in Modern Fiction. Portus Novus Connecticutae: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300045921.

Nexus externi

[1] Susan Cheevers, American Bloomsbury: Ludovica May Alcott, Radulphus Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (Detroit: Thorndike Press, 2006), p. 196. ISBN 0-7862-9521-X.

[2] Howard P. Vincent, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, (Chicago: Packard & Company and Hendricks House, 1947), p. 446.

[3] Robert S. Levine, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Cambridge, England and New York City: Cambridge University Press (1998), xviii. ISBN 0-521-55571-X.

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